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| | Monasteriales Indicia |
 | | It establishes a place for the Monasteriales Indicia within the traditions of monastic life and literature and seeks to expand the teaching of medieval literature to include texts that are not, strictly speaking, "literary". |
 | | A list of signs to be used in the refectory, chapel, and dormitory when silence was being kept, though not perhaps highest on the list of desiderata for a newly established monastic life, would have been used, as at Cluny, in the education of new monks and nuns. |
 | | It seems most likely, therefore, that the Monasteriales Indicia is not a text derived from Continental models, nor even contemporary with the Regularis Concordia, but rather a record of the signs developed by the monks at Canterbury during the eighty or so years separating Edgar's reform and MS Cotton Tiberius A.III. |
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