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portada The age of Secrecy - Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2015
Language
English
Pages
440
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780300190984
Edition No.
1
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The age of Secrecy - Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800

Daniel JÜTte (Author) · Yale University Press · Hardcover

The age of Secrecy - Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800 - Daniel JÜTte

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Synopsis "The age of Secrecy - Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800 "

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 Jütte 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 Jütte 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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