Bonds of Secrecy

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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• História inglesa e irlandesa
• Ética religiosa
• História da religião
• Cristianismo
• Estudos literários: clássica, primitiva e medieval
• História Medieval

Anglo-Saxon literature; legal culture; divine omniscience; monastic life in England; secular law; monastic practices; hagiography; poetry; hermeneutics; literary interpretation; middle ages