Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy

by Karma Lochrie

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book

In Covert Operations, Karma Lochrie 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. She reads...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0812221745

ISBN13:9780812221749

Release Date:September 2011

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Cultural History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences Women in History

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