04149nam 2200877 a 450 991045270120332120200520144314.01-283-89711-30-8122-0719-X10.9783/9780812207194(CKB)2550000000707653(OCoLC)833582420(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642208(SSID)ssj0000810718(PQKBManifestationID)11427887(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810718(PQKBWorkID)10833076(PQKB)10346936(MiAaPQ)EBC3441873(MdBmJHUP)muse19912(DE-B1597)449477(OCoLC)979748812(DE-B1597)9780812207194(Au-PeEL)EBL3441873(CaPaEBR)ebr10642208(CaONFJC)MIL420961(OCoLC)842283965(EXLCZ)99255000000070765319980714d1999 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCovert operations[electronic resource] the medieval uses of secrecy /Karma LochriePhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc19991 online resource (299 p.) The Middle Ages SeriesMiddle Ages seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-2174-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-286) and index.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 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.Middle Ages series.English literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismWomen and literatureEnglandHistoryTo 1500WomenEnglandHistoryMiddle Ages, 500-1500Marriage customs and rites, MedievalScience, Medieval, in literatureLaw, Medieval, in literatureMarriage in literatureSecrecy in literatureGossip in literatureSodomy in literatureEnglandSocial conditions1066-1485Electronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryWomenHistoryMarriage customs and rites, Medieval.Science, Medieval, in literature.Law, Medieval, in literature.Marriage in literature.Secrecy in literature.Gossip in literature.Sodomy in literature.820.9/001Lochrie Karma883021MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452701203321Covert operations2443295UNINA