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Covert operations : the medieval uses of secrecy / / Karma Lochrie



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Autore: Lochrie Karma Visualizza persona
Titolo: Covert operations : the medieval uses of secrecy / / Karma Lochrie Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/001
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: England Social conditions 1066-1485
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Covert operations  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-89711-3
0-8122-0719-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813051403321
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Serie: Middle Ages series.