Covert operations
the medieval uses of secrecy
by Karma Lochrie
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, 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, John Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as well as a broad range of less familiar works, such as 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.
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Women, History and criticism, Women and literature, Law, Medieval, in literature, Sodomy in literature, English literature, Marriage in literature, Marriage customs and rites, Medieval, Gossip in literature, Secrecy in literature, Medieval Marriage customs and rites, Social conditions, Science, Medieval, in literature, History, Secrecy (psychology), Middle ages, historyPlaces
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Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy
2012, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Covert Operations: the Medieval Uses of Secrecy
2012, University of Pennsylvania Press
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1283897113 9781283897112
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Covert operations: the medieval uses of secrecy
1999, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
0812234731 9780812234732
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Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy (Middle Ages Series)
December 1998, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-286) and index.
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"With their lead-lined walls, double doors, heating, cooling and ventilation systems and a special screen to block spit and bad breath, Genuflex confessionals have little in common with the creaky, musty, old-fashioned boxes where churchgoers knelt in darkness to whisper their sins into the ear of the parish priest. . . ."
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