Combined book review of: Katherine Ellison, Susan Kim (eds.), A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers. Cryptography and the History of Literacy, Routledge: Oxford 2018. & Katherine Ellison, A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals, Routledge: Oxford 2017.

Dr. Sarah A. Lang

I am a digital humanities scholar whose work connects the study of historical knowledge systems with the development and critical assessment of contemporary computational and AI-based methods.

My research interests include leveraging Computational Humanities for the historiography of Alchemy and Chymistry. I am the author of the blog LaTeX Ninja’ing and the Digital Humanities.