Format:
xii, 285 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
23 cm
ISBN:
9781138244641
Series Statement:
Material readings in early modern culture
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Ellison, Katherine, 1957 - A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017 ISBN 9781351973083
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Kryptologie
;
Ziffer
;
Notenschrift
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Ellison, Katherine 1957-
