1st Edition
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
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
Biography
Katherine Ellison is Professor of English at Illinois State University, USA.
Susan Kim is Professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University, USA.
