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Real Life Cryptology
Ciphers and Secrets in Early Modern Hungary
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Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
This book reconstructs the main reasons and goals why historical actors chose to create and use enciphered documents, what they decided to encrypt, and how they perceived the dangers threatening their messages.
Author / Editor information
Láng Benedek :
A historian of science, Benedek Láng is a professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He specializes in late medieval manuscripts of learned magic and early modern secret communication (artificial languages and cipher systems).
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Frontmatter
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Table of contents
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Abbreviations
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Note on terminology
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Note on names
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1. Introduction
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2. Uncovered fields in the research literature
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3. Secret writings and attitudes – research questions
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4. Theory and practice of cryptography in early modern Europe
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5. Ciphers in Hungary: the source material
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6. Ciphers in action
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7. Ways of knowledge transfer
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8. Scenes of secrecy
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9. Summary
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10. Appendix
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Acknowledgements
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Earlier publications
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Bibliography
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 1, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9789048536696
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
224
Illustrations:
29
eBook ISBN:
9789048536696
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
