The Age Of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, And The Economy Of Secrets, 1400?1800 -

Yale University Press. Used - Very Good. 2015. Hardcover. Very Good.

Yale University Press. Used - Like New. Fine. Cloth, D-j. 2015. Originally published at $40.

Yale University Press. New. Fine. Cloth, D-j. 2015. Originally published at $40.

Yale University Press, 2015. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. ix, 431 pages; 25 cm. First published under title: Zeitalter des Geheimnisses. Translated from the German. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "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… Read More

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