This dissertation examines secrecy statements, the so-called cryptographic cuneiform texts, and foundation deposits in first millennium BCE Mesopotamia, linking them through the network of people …
This dissertation argues that secrets become increasingly politicized over the course of the twentieth century, emerging from the private realm (the context of “family secrets” …
Through a Glass Darkly: Secrecy in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Novella explores secrecy's role in the development of the literary genre of the French …