Medieval Sign Language (Monasteriales Indicia)

In this video we explore an historic language that isn't very well known. Monastic Sign Language was used in England throughout the medieval period, and may be the precursor to modern BSL.
If you have any topics you'd like to see us cover, please comment below. If you'd like to learn more about British Sign Language, check out this link:
www.british-sign.co.uk/
Music: Marked by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Master of the Feast by Kevin McLeod
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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[@ratty1942]

This was really fun to watch! It was recommended to me from a Tasting History video that talked about monks in general.

[@ScholaNormannorum]

Glad you liked it! That's really cool to know, thank you.

[@lisaholman9168]

Excellent, thank you 🙂

[@ellendarrow]

looked into this on youtube after reading about the life of thomas merton - awesome video!!! thank you for your research and hard work

[@Davlavi]

just found this channel I shall sub and fallow thanks.

[@James-wd9ib]

Took me a second to think of turning the captions on

[@oriellemoyenageenmusique5198]

Very interesting subject.

[@ScholaNormannorum]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

[@abdullahidahir545]

Amazing video as always!

[@ScholaNormannorum]

Thanks so much!

[@catalinadominguez9485]

Thank you! This video was very useful. So interesting!

[@ScholaNormannorum]

Thanks for the feedback!
Glad you liked it!

[@vincentrouardconteur5919]

Thank you very much, this is really interesting ! Did you compared this Benedictine sign language with the Cistecian's one ?

[@ScholaNormannorum]

Unfortunately we haven't, we've not found a good book for Cistercian signs yet. If you have a recommendation do let us know!

[@siyacer]

verg interesting

[@ramonmenendezrecio4442]

That's wonderful!
Do you have any other particularly funny or senseless signs?

[@ScholaNormannorum]

The ones in the video are definitely our favourites, but there are a number of signs which seem very obscure without context, mostly liturgical ones.

[@ramonmenendezrecio4442]

@@ScholaNormannorum Where could I find a guide?

[@capucnechaussonpassion14]

so funny how christianity is the highest and most complete form of bdsm ever invented...! Anyways this video is really well made, I heard about it really quickly in a Greedy.Peasant book club video (check him out he's incredibly funny) and wanted to know more and now feel fulfilled