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The Age of Secrecy - Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800 (Hardcover)
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The Age of Secrecy - Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800 (Hardcover)
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The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of
Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be
positive knowledge that extended into all areas of daily life, from
the economic, scientific, and political spheres to the general
activities of ordinary people. So asserts Daniel Jutte in this
engrossing, vivid, and award-winning work. He maintains that the
widespread acceptance and even reverence for this "economy of
secrets" in premodern Europe created a highly complex and sometimes
perilous space for mutual contact between Jews and Christians.
Surveying the interactions between the two religious groups in a
wide array of secret sciences and practices-including alchemy,
cryptography, medical arcana, technological and military secrets,
and intelligence-the author relates true stories of colorful
"professors of secrets" and clandestine encounters. In the process
Jutte examines how our current notion of secrecy is radically
different in this era of WikiLeaks, Snowden, et al., as opposed to
centuries earlier when the truest, most important knowledge was
generally considered to be secret by definition.
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