Bonds of Secrecy
How beliefs about human and divine secrets informed medieval ideas about the mind and shaped the practices of literary interpretations
What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets of God remained unknowable to human beings. In Bonds of Secrecy, Be...
How beliefs about human and divine secrets informed medieval ideas about the mind and shaped the practices of literary interpretations
What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets of God remained unknowable to human beings. In Bonds of Secrecy, Be...
