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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1999.
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| Series: | Middle Ages series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.