A material history of medieval and early modern ciphers : cryptography and the history of literacy /: cryptography and the history of literacy. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Katherine Ellison and Susan Kim.
• Editors: Ellison, Katherine E; Kim, Susan M
• 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.
• Publisher Details: New York London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 652/.8; Cryptography -- History; Ciphers -- History; Writing -- History; Written communication -- History; Ciphers in literature; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism; Literacy -- History; Civilization, Medieval; Renaissance; LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance; HISTORY / Renaissance; Literary History; Material Culture; Cryptography; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; Literature & Culture; Medieval Literature; Social & Cultural History; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Writing; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315267449; 1315267446; 9781351973076
• Related ISBNs: 135197307X; 9781138244641; 1138244643
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 2, 2017).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.