Covert operations [[electronic resource] ] : the medieval uses of secrecy / / Karma Lochrie

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452701203321
• Autore: Lochrie Karma
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999
• ISBN: 1-283-89711-3; 0-8122-0719-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Collana: The Middle Ages Series; Middle Ages series
• Disciplina: 820.9/001
• Soggetti: English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism; Women and literature - England - History - To 1500; Women - England - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500; Marriage customs and rites, Medieval; Science, Medieval, in literature; Law, Medieval, in literature; Marriage in literature; Secrecy in literature; Gossip in literature; Sodomy in literature; Electronic books.; England Social conditions 1066-1485
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-286) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic BookIn 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 texts as central to Middle English studies as the "Parson's Tale," the "Miller's Tale," the Secretum Secretorum, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as well as a broad range of less familiar works, including a gynecological treatise and a little-known fifteenth-century parody in which gossip and confession become one. As she does so she reveals a great deal about the medieval past—and perhaps just as much about the early development of the concealments that shape the present day.

Teach me to be generous : the first century of Regis High School in New York City / / Anthony Andreassi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821946403321
• Autore: Andreassi Anthony
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : Focal Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8232-5636-7; 0-8232-5634-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Collana: Empire State Editions
• Classificazione: REL091000REL026000HIS036010
• Disciplina: 371.071/209747
• Soggetti: Catholic high schools - New York (State) - New York - History; Catholic high school students - New York (State) - New York - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1 Mrs. Grant's Gift -- 2 Strong Beginnings, 1914-1930 -- 3 "See You in North Africa!": Regis Through the Depression and World War II -- 4 A Winning Team, Father Gannon, and Anniversary Celebrations -- 5 Neat and Clean with Socks and Covered Shoes: A Revised Dress Code, a New Curriculum, and Other Changes, 1964-1980 -- 6 The Return of the Missing Owl -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Teach Me to Be Generous tells the remarkable story of Regis High School, the Jesuit school on New York's Upper East Side that was founded in 1914 by an anonymous donor as a school for Catholic boys whose families could not otherwise afford a Catholic education. Enabled by the philanthropy of the founding family for nearly a century, and now by alumni and friends carrying on that tradition of generosity, Regis has been able to provide tuition-free, all-scholarship education for its entire history. It also holds the distinction of being the first free-standing Jesuit high school in the United States, with no connection to any Jesuit colleges or universities. Regis High School's unique story is told by an engaging storyteller and historian who has taught at the school for more than ten years. Father Andreassi offers captivating glimpses into the lives and daily experiences of Regis's students and faculty while chronicling the development of the school's educational philosophy and spiritual approach in its first century. Filled with entertaining anecdotes alongside wider historical context and illuminating statistical analysis, Teach Me to Be Generous tracks Regis High School through the decades of the twentieth century to the present day--from the generosity of a devout Catholic widow, through the Depression and World War II, to changes in demographics of the Catholic community and shifts in the landscape of Catholic education in New York City. During the school's first few decades, Regis admitted thousands of Catholic boys, mostly from poor or lower-middle-class families, helping prepare them for success in college and leadership positions in the professions. Because of the closing of dozens of urban Catholic schools and the general decline of the quality of New York City's public schools, in more recent years the school has faced the challenge of remaining true to its mission in offering an education to Catholic boys "who otherwise would not be able to afford a Catholic education." Teach Me to Be Generous paints a vivid portrait of the first one hundred years of an exceptional institution and looks with hope and confidence to its future"--