Covert Operations
Subtitle: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy (Middle Ages Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780812234732
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Women and literature; Middle English, 1100-1500; History and criticism; Middle English Literature; Women In English Literature; Women; History - General History; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Anthropology - Cultural; Medieval; English literature; To 1500; Women Authors; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; England; History; Middle Ages, 500-1500
First sentence: With their lead-lined walls, double doors, heating, cooling and ventilation systems and a special screen to block spit and bad breath, Genuflex confessionals have little in common with the creaky, musty, old-fashioned boxes where churchgoers knelt in darkness to whisper their sins into the ear of the parish priest. . . .