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Covert operations : the medieval uses of secrecy
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Annotation. Here, Karma Lochrie brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in whic...
Annotation. Here, Karma Lochrie brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in which they are played out.
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- English
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [Sept. 2011.]
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- 1 online resource (304 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 9780812221749, 0812221745, 9780812207194, 081220719X, 0812234731, 9780812234732
- OCLC
- ocn842283965
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-286) and index.
- Introduction, or dark matter -- 1. Tongues untied: confession and its secrets -- 2. Tongues wagging: gossip, women, and indiscreet secrets -- 3. Men's ways of knowing: the secret of secrets and the secrets of women -- 4. Covert women and their mysteries -- 5. Sodomy and other female perversions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Subjects
- Sodomy in literature.
- Gossip in literature.
- Secrecy in literature.
- Marriage in literature.
- Law, Medieval, in literature.
- Science, Medieval, in literature.
- Marriage customs and rites, Medieval.
- Women -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
- Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
- England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485.