Publication

2020 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

183,500 words, Guess

Page Count

734 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004432253
  • ISBN-109004432256
  • Library of Congress Control Number2020023185
  • OCLC Control Number1157354091
  • Better World Books9789004432253
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCN7740.L68 2018
  • LCCN7740 .L68 2018

Description

"Quid est secretum? Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 is the companion volume to Intersections 65.1, Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700. Whereas the latter volume focused on sacramental mysteries, the current one examines a wider range of secret subjects. The book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it. In the early modern period, the discursive and symbolical sites for the representation of secrets were closely related to epistemic changes that transformed conceptions of the transmissibility of knowledge"--

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