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A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers - Cryptography and the History of Literacy (Hardcover)
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A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers - Cryptography and the History of Literacy (Hardcover)
Series: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
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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 but also played a central role in the emergence of
the capitalist media state in the West, in religious reformation,
and in the scientific revolution. Ciphered communication, whether
in etched stone and bone, in musical notae, runic symbols,
polyalphabetic substitution, algebraic equations, graphic
typographies, or literary metaphors, took place in contested social
spaces and offered a means of expression during times of political,
economic, and personal upheaval. Ciphering shaped the early history
of linguistics as a discipline, and it bridged theological and
scientific rhetoric before and during the Reformation. Ciphering
was an occult art, a mathematic language, and an aesthetic that
influenced music, sculpture, painting, drama, poetry, and the early
novel. This collection addresses gaps in cryptographic history, but
more significantly, through cultural analyses of the rhetorical
situations of ciphering and actual solved and unsolved medieval and
early modern ciphers, it traces the influences of cryptographic
writing and reading on literacy broadly defined as well as the
cultures that generate, resist, and require that literacy. This
volume offers a significant contribution to the history of the
book, highlighting the broader cultural significance of textual
materialities.
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