Bonds of Secrecy: Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England
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, Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that thi...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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, Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that this double-edged conception of secrecy and divinity profoundly affected the way believers acted and thought as subjects under the law, as the devout within monasteries, and as readers before books. One crucial way it did so was by forming an ethical relationship between the self and the world that was fundamentally different from its modern reflex. Whereas today the bearers of secrets might be judged for the consequences of their reticence or disclosure, Saltzman observes, in the early Middle Ages a person attempting to conceal a secret was judged for believing he or she could conceal it from God. In other words, to attempt to hide from God was to become ensnared in a serious sin, but to hide from the world while deliberately and humbly submitting to God's constant observation was often a hallmark of spiritual virtue.Looking to law codes and religious architecture, hagiographies and riddles, Bonds of Secrecy shows how legal and monastic institutions harnessed the pervasive and complex belief in God's omniscience to produce an intense culture of scrutiny and a radical ethics of secrecy founded on the individual's belief that nothing could be hidden from God. According to Saltzman, this ethics of secrecy not only informed early medieval notions of mental activity and ideas about the mind but also profoundly shaped the practices of literary interpretation in ways that can inform our own contemporary approaches to reading texts from the past |
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| series2 | The Middle Ages Series |
| spelling | Saltzman, Benjamin A. Verfasser aut Bonds of Secrecy Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England Benjamin A. Saltzman Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2019] © 2019 1 online resource (360 pages) 12 txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier The Middle Ages Series Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020) 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, Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that this double-edged conception of secrecy and divinity profoundly affected the way believers acted and thought as subjects under the law, as the devout within monasteries, and as readers before books. One crucial way it did so was by forming an ethical relationship between the self and the world that was fundamentally different from its modern reflex. Whereas today the bearers of secrets might be judged for the consequences of their reticence or disclosure, Saltzman observes, in the early Middle Ages a person attempting to conceal a secret was judged for believing he or she could conceal it from God. In other words, to attempt to hide from God was to become ensnared in a serious sin, but to hide from the world while deliberately and humbly submitting to God's constant observation was often a hallmark of spiritual virtue.Looking to law codes and religious architecture, hagiographies and riddles, Bonds of Secrecy shows how legal and monastic institutions harnessed the pervasive and complex belief in God's omniscience to produce an intense culture of scrutiny and a radical ethics of secrecy founded on the individual's belief that nothing could be hidden from God. According to Saltzman, this ethics of secrecy not only informed early medieval notions of mental activity and ideas about the mind but also profoundly shaped the practices of literary interpretation in ways that can inform our own contemporary approaches to reading texts from the past In English Geschichte 500-1000 gnd rswk-swf Cultural Studies Literature Medieval and Renaissance Studies Religion Religious Studies LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval bisacsh Christian hagiography History To 1500 Concealment (Criminal law) England History To 1500 God (Christianity) Omniscience History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500 Latin poetry, Medieval and modern England History and criticism Monastic and religious life England History To 1500 Riddles, English (Old) History and criticism Secrecy Law and legislation England History To 1500 Secrecy Religious aspects Christianity History To 1500 Secrecy England History To 1500 Spirituality Christianity History Middle Ages, 600-1500 Recht (DE-588)4048737-4 gnd rswk-swf Geheimhaltung (DE-588)4140232-7 gnd rswk-swf Religion (DE-588)4049396-9 gnd rswk-swf England (DE-588)4014770-8 gnd rswk-swf England (DE-588)4014770-8 g Geheimhaltung (DE-588)4140232-7 s Religion (DE-588)4049396-9 s Recht (DE-588)4048737-4 s Geschichte 500-1000 z 1\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296846 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | Bonds of Secrecy Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England |
| title_auth | Bonds of Secrecy Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England |
| title_exact_search | Bonds of Secrecy Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England |
| title_exact_search_txtP | Bonds of Secrecy Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England |
| title_full | Bonds of Secrecy Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England Benjamin A. Saltzman |
| title_fullStr | Bonds of Secrecy Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England Benjamin A. Saltzman |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bonds of Secrecy Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England Benjamin A. Saltzman |
| title_short | Bonds of Secrecy |
| title_sort | bonds of secrecy law spirituality and the literature of concealment in early medieval england |
| title_sub | Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England |
| topic | Cultural Studies Literature Medieval and Renaissance Studies Religion Religious Studies LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval bisacsh Christian hagiography History To 1500 Concealment (Criminal law) England History To 1500 God (Christianity) Omniscience History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500 Latin poetry, Medieval and modern England History and criticism Monastic and religious life England History To 1500 Riddles, English (Old) History and criticism Secrecy Law and legislation England History To 1500 Secrecy Religious aspects Christianity History To 1500 Secrecy England History To 1500 Spirituality Christianity History Middle Ages, 600-1500 Recht (DE-588)4048737-4 gnd Geheimhaltung (DE-588)4140232-7 gnd Religion (DE-588)4049396-9 gnd |
| topic_facet | Cultural Studies Literature Medieval and Renaissance Studies Religion Religious Studies LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval Christian hagiography History To 1500 Concealment (Criminal law) England History To 1500 God (Christianity) Omniscience History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500 Latin poetry, Medieval and modern England History and criticism Monastic and religious life England History To 1500 Riddles, English (Old) History and criticism Secrecy Law and legislation England History To 1500 Secrecy Religious aspects Christianity History To 1500 Secrecy England History To 1500 Spirituality Christianity History Middle Ages, 600-1500 Recht Geheimhaltung England |
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