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
- Title:
- A material history of medieval and early modern ciphers : cryptography and the history of literacy /: cryptography and the history of literacy. (2018)
- Main Title:
- A material history of medieval and early modern ciphers : cryptography and the history of literacy
- 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).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.188853
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