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Bonds of Secrecy illuminates the relationship between human experiences of secrecy and early medieval beliefs about divine omniscience. Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that this relationship was fundamental to early English legal and monastic culture and profoundly shaped the practices of literary interpretation in the Middle Ages.

Introduction: Directions of thought: the Middle Ages at the midcentury / R. D. Perry and Benjamin A. Saltzman -- Politics. Outside history: Fanon's negative Manicheism / D. Vance Smith -- "The noblest blood God ever made": W. E. B. Du Bois's medievalism in the contexts of the world wars / Cord J. Whitaker -- Ernst Kantorowicz, Carl Schmitt, and the University of California regents / Nancy van Deusen -- Hannah Arendt's Middle Ages for the left / R. D. Perry -- Arts. Curtius and Jung: commonplaces, archetypes, and literature's collective unconscious / Emily V. Thornbury -- Old English at the midcentury: poetry, scholarship and fiction in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s / Clare A. Lees -- Erwin Panofsky's Neo-Kantian Humanism and the purported relation between Gothic architecture and scholasticism / C. Oliver O'Donnell -- "Are women human?": authority, gender, and Dante in Dorothy L. Sayers's scholarship / Helen Brookman -- Epochs. Periodization trouble: Auerbach, Huizinga, and the question of medieval realism / Jane O. Newman -- Medieval mysticism and the making of Simone Weil / Anna Kelner -- Hermeneutics and the medieval horizon: Zumthor, Jauss, Barthes, and Gadamer / Benjamin A. Saltzman -- Afterword / Martin Jay.