Bonds of Secrecy: Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval EnglandWhat did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets of God remained unknowable to human beings. In Bonds of Secrecy, Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that this double edged conception of secrecy and divinity profoundly affected the way believers acted and thought as subjects under the law, as the devout within