| Description |
xii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| ISBN |
9781138244641 hardback : alkaline paper |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Ciphers and the material history of literacy / Katherine Ellison and Susan Kim -- Medieval musical notes as cryptography / Elsa DeLuca and John Haines -- Keeping history: images, texts, ciphers, and the Franks Casket / Susan Kim and Asa Simon Mittman -- Anglo-Saxon ciphers / Stephen J. Harris -- The cryptographic imagination: revealing and concealing in Anglo-Saxon literature / E.J. Christie -- The printing press and cryptography: Alberti and the dawn of a notational epoch / Quinn Dupont -- "That you are both decipher'd": revealing espionage and staging written evidence in early modern England / Lisa M. Barksdale-Shaw -- Out of "their covert of words": cipher and secrecy in the writing of early modern algebra / Lisa Wilde -- Limited by their letters: alphabets, codes, and gesture in seventeenth-century England / Michael C. Clody -- Deciphering and the exhaustion of recombination / Katherine Ellison -- "What I write I do not see": reading and writing with invisible ink / Karen Britland -- Real life cryptology: enciphering practice in early modern Hungary / Benedek Láng -- Afterword: The critical legacy of medieval and early modern cryptography before and after World War I / Katherine Ellison and Susan Kim. |
| Series |
Material readings in early modern culture.
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| Library Class |
Computing E30
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| Subject |
Cryptography -- History.
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Ciphers -- History.
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Writing -- History
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Written communication -- History.
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Ciphers in literature.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Literacy -- History.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Renaissance.
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| Other Author |
Ellison, Katherine E., editor.
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Kim, Susan M., editor.
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