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PUBLISHER: Amsterdam University Press

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9789462985544

RRP: £85.00

PAGES: 224

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 20, 2018

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Real Life Cryptology: Ciphers and Secrets in Early Modern Hungary

Benedek Lï¿½ng

Cryptography, Early modern history, History of science, Social history

Benedek Lï¿½ng

A historian of science, Benedek Lï¿½ng 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). His scholarly book entitled Unlocked Books, Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe was published by Penn State University Press in 2008.[-][-]|

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