is a PhD student in the History of Science and Medicine Program at Yale University. Her research interests focus on the history of the body and the history of the book in early modern Europe.
A guest post by Alicia Petersen What comes to mind when you think of a coded letter? Political intrigue? Espionage? As the Folger Shakespeare Library’s 2014-5 exhibition Decoding the Renaissance: 500 Years of Codes and Ciphers highlighted, these guesses are…
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