A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers (eBook, ePUB)

Cryptography and the History of Literacy
Redaktion: Ellison, Katherine; Kim, Susan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this book joins scholars who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability studies, and other perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351973076
• Artikelnr.: 49268442

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ciphers and the Material History of Literacy



Katherine Ellison and Susan Kim



1. Medieval Musical Notes as Cryptography

Elsa DeLuca and John Haines

2. Keeping History: Images, Texts, Ciphers, and the Franks Casket

Susan Kim and Asa Simon Mittman

3. Anglo-Saxon Ciphers

Stephen J. Harris

4. The Cryptographic Imagination: Revealing and Concealing in Anglo-Saxon Literature

E.J. Christie

5. The Printing Press and Cryptography: Alberti and the Dawn of a Notational Epoch

Quinn Dupont

6. "That you are both decipher'd": Revealing Espionage and Staging Written Evidence in Early Modern England

Lisa M. Barksdale-Shaw

7. Out of "their covert of words": Cipher and Secrecy in the Writing of Early Modern Algebra

Lisa Wilde

8. Limited by Their Letters: Alphabets, Codes, and Gesture in Seventeenth-Century England

Michael C. Clody

9. Deciphering and the Exhaustion of Recombination

Katherine Ellison

10. "What I write I do not see": Reading and Writing With Invisible Ink

Karen Britland

11. Real Life Cryptology: Enciphering Practice in Early Modern Hungary

Benedek Láng

12. Afterword: The Critical Legacy of Medieval and Early Modern Cryptography Before and After World War I

Katherine Ellison and Susan Kim