A material history of medieval and early modern ciphers: cryptography and the history of literacy
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...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New Yourk London
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Material readings in early modern culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cryptology
/ Numeral
/ Musical notation
/ Literature
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Renaissance
B Collection of essays B Ciphers in literature B Literacy History B Cryptography History B Written communication History B Writing History B Literature, Medieval History and criticism B Ciphers History B Civilization, Medieval B English literature History and criticism |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xii, 285 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-138-24464-1 |
