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Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy

By Karma Lochrie

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780812207194
DOI
10.9783/9780812207194
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17580081 bytes)
Pages
304\298
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 19:31:35

Description

Covert Operations brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating five broad areas—confession, women's gossip, medieval science and medicine, marriage and the law, and sodomitic discourse—Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in which they are played out. Covert Operations brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating five broad areas—confession, women's gossip, medieval science and medicine, marriage and the law, and sodomitic discourse—Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in which they are played out.

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