Bonds of secrecy : law, spirituality, and the literature of concealment in early medieval England
Benjamin A. Saltzman (Author)
Print Book, English, 2019
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2019
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 339 pages ; 25 cm.
9780812251616, 081225161X
1097959628
Pt. I LAW
ch. 1 Political Epistemology and Crimes of Concealment in Anglo-Saxon Law
ch. 3 The Secret Seized: Theft, Death, and Testimony
pt. II SPIRITUALITY
ch. 3 Monastic Life and the Regulation of Secrecy
ch. 4 Making Space for Spiritual Secrecy
ch. 5 Seeing in Secret: Saints, Hagiography, and the Ethics of Concealment and Discovery
pt. III LITERATURE
ch. 6 Binding Secrets, Solving Riddles
ch. 7 Worldly Concealment, Divine Knowledge, and the Hermeneutics of Faith
ch. 8 Reading Hidden Meaning: Between Interpretive Pride and Eschatological Humility