Benjamin A. Saltzman

Bonds of Secrecy

Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• The Middle Ages Series
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9780812251616
• ISBN-10: 081225161X
• Artikelnr.: 56397302

Autorenporträt

Benjamin A. Saltzman

Inhaltsangabe

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