Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy

by Karma Lochrie

Book Overview

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book

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, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221745
• ISBN13: 9780812221749
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"