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Covert Operations : The Medieval Uses of Secrecy /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1999
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| Colección: | Middle Ages series.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.