Title Covert Operations : the Medieval Uses of Secrecy

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Sept. 2011

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages) Series The Middle Ages Ser Middle Ages Ser Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-286) and index Audience College Audience University of Pennsylvania Press Subject 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 English literature -- Middle English Gossip in literature Law, Medieval, in literature Marriage customs and rites, Medieval Marriage in literature Science, Medieval, in literature Secrecy in literature Social conditions Sodomy in literature Women and literature Women -- Middle Ages SUBJECT England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043312 Subject England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812221749 0812221745 9780812207194 081220719X

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