ISBN:
9780812296846
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (361 pages)
Series Statement:
The Middle Ages Ser.
Series Statement:
The Middle Ages series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.3/7
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Secrecy ; Law and legislation ; England ; History ; To 1500
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Concealment (Criminal law) ; England ; History ; To 1500
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Secrecy ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; History ; To 1500
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God (Christianity) ; Omniscience ; History of doctrines ; Middle Ages, 600-1500
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Monastic and religious life ; England ; History ; To 1500
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Spirituality ; Christianity ; History ; Middle Ages, 600-1500
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Christian hagiography ; History ; To 1500
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Riddles, English (Old) ; History and criticism
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Latin poetry, Medieval and modern ; England ; History and criticism
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Secrecy ; England ; History ; To 1500
Abstract:
Bonds of Secrecy illuminates the relationship between human experiences of secrecy and early medieval beliefs about divine omniscience. Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that this relationship was fundamental to early English legal and monastic culture and profoundly shaped the practices of literary interpretation in the Middle Ages.
Abstract:
Cover -- Bonds of Secrecy -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Note on References and Translations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. LAW -- Chapter 1. Political Epistemology and Crimes of Concealment in Anglo- Saxon Law -- Chapter 2. The Secret Seized: Theft, Death, and Testimony -- PART II. SPIRITUALITY -- Chapter 3. Monastic Life and the Regulation of Secrecy -- Chapter 4. Making Space for Spiritual Secrecy -- Chapter 5. Seeing in Secret: Saints, Hagiography, and the Ethics of Concealment and Discovery -- PART III. LITERATURE -- Chapter 6. Binding Secrets, Solving Riddles -- Chapter 7. Worldly Concealment, Divine Knowledge, and the Hermeneutics of Faith -- Chapter 8. Reading Hidden Meaning: Between Interpretive Pride and Eschatological Humility -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
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