The Secret Seekers (Hardback)
Codes, Ciphers and the Hidden Lives of Tudor Women
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How the hidden world of codes and ciphers transforms our understanding of Tudor history
Cracking codes and ciphers to uncover mysteries is the stuff of dreams to most historians. But Vanessa Braganza is a real-life book detective who has solved some of the most elusive mysteries surrounding the Tudors by paying attention to items of the historical record that often go overlooked, revealing a previously unrecognized feminist history.
With a detective-like approach, Braganza takes readers on a fascinating quest to uncover the secrets of distant past through letters, books, ciphers, jewellery, etchings, graffiti, fashion, paintings and so much more.
From finding a ciphered book that should have burned in Lady Mary Wroth's library to decoding the truth behind the supposed 'angel language' of John Dee, The Secret Seekers reveal a hidden world, providing a ground-breaking take on Renaissance history.
The Secret Seekers (Ebook)
Codes, Ciphers and the Hidden Lives of Tudor Women
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How the hidden world of codes and ciphers transforms our understanding of Tudor history
Cracking codes and ciphers to uncover mysteries is the stuff of dreams to most historians. But Vanessa Braganza is a real-life book detective who has solved some of the most elusive mysteries surrounding the Tudors by paying attention to items of the historical record that often go overlooked, revealing a previously unrecognized feminist history.
With a detective-like approach, Braganza takes readers on a fascinating quest to uncover the secrets of distant past through letters, books, ciphers, jewellery, etchings, graffiti, fashion, paintings and so much more.
From finding a ciphered book that should have burned in Lady Mary Wroth's library to decoding the truth behind the supposed 'angel language' of John Dee, The Secret Seekers reveal a hidden world, providing a ground-breaking take on Renaissance history.
Vanessa Braganza
Vanessa Braganza is a public-facing intellectual and book detective, and a PhD candidate in Renaissance literature at Harvard. She writes for Smithsonian, Lithub, Mental Floss, and the LA Review of Books and her academic work has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals and volumes. She is a member of the Foundation of St. John's College, Cambridge, where she earned her MPhil in Renaissance Literature. She is also a JD candidate at Columbia Law School where she specializes in constitutional law. As a curator, her past work includes co-coordinating Harvard's Renaissance Colloquium in 2020-21, programming at the Library of Congress, and curating the Harvard exhibit 500 Years of Women Authors, Authorizing Themselves. . In 2022, Braganza was named a Harvard Horizons Scholar and a Bowdoin Prize recipient. She is also a JD candidate at Columbia Law School where she specializes in constitutional law.