Covert Operations : The Medieval Uses of Secrecy
- Author / Editor
- Lochrie, Karma.
Covert Operations : The Medieval Uses of Secrecy
- Published
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
- Physical Description
- 292 pp.
- Series
- The Middle Ages Series.
- Description
- Explores the implications of secrecy represented in several topics and depicted in medieval texts: confession in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, gossip in WBPT and HF, occulted science in Pseudo-Aristotle's Secret of Secrets and Pseudo-Albert's The Secrets of Women, the legal designation of the "covered woman" in MilPT, and the discourse of sodomy in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. In these manifestations, medieval secrecy "structured gender ideology." In both medieval and modern times, secrecy "supports masculine regimes of knowledge, discourse, and power," while abjecting both men and women.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- House of Fame.