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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.
Sommario
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
Info autore
Benjamin A. Saltzman teaches English at the University of Chicago.
Riassunto
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.
