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The Medieval Church · c. 1077
The Monastic Constitutions
Lanfranc of Bec · c. 1005–1089
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What it is
Customs for Canterbury covering the whole year, including the sign language monks used during the hours of silence — signs for bread, for a book, for a psalter.
Why it lasted
The document that reorganised English monasticism after the Conquest, and a rare record of medieval monastic sign language.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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