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The autobiographical dialogue is based upon the principle of questioning the fundamentals of one's own life script and offered itself in particular during times of reform movements, when role models and values within communities were open to debate. The monastic reforms of the 14th and 15th centuries created a new authority with the category of Visitors who frequently did not advance according to the hierarchy of the monastery visited, but instead entered them laterally, in order to ensure the long-term success of the arrangements. This authority to exert power increased the need for justification. In his Senatorium the Benedictine reform abbot and Visitor Martin of Leibitz/L'ubica (1400-1464) legitimized his self-reflection with the claim to a didactic conversation in the tradition of the Gregorian Dialogues , the Bohemian Malogranatum and the Formicarius of Johannes Nider. The dialogue relates the conversation between a youth and an old man. The elderly man ( senex ) is Martin's “alter ego” who wishes to speak of his experience according to the classical stages of life, the young man represents an inquisitive cue-giver who challenges his partner by agreement or contradiction. The autobiography suggests the atmosphere of a chapter hall. It is drawn on the modus of an inquisitio and filled with contemporary possibilities for monastic self-thematization in interviews, visitiation reports or letters. In contrast to Petrarch's Secretum , the Senatorium does not have the character of a private examen conscientiae , because Martin publicly acknowledges transgressions against the rules and their local adaptions, as with the peccata hominis exterioris , which should be laid bare communally.

Monastic Reform and Autobiographical Dialogue: The «Senatorium» of Abbot Martin of Leibitz