A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers
Broschiertes Buch

A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers

Cryptography and the History of Literacy

Herausgegeben: Ellison, Katherine; Kim, Susan
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The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability studies, and other theoretical perspectives. Essays analyze the material forms of ciphering as windows into the cultures of orality, manuscript, print, and publishing, revealing that early modern ciphering, and the complex history that preceded it in the medieval period, not only influenced political and military history b...