Developing the Art of Secret Writing across Borders: The Journey of Marie de Guise’s Ciphers between France and Scotland

This article looks at Marie de Guise’s part in the development of ciphered writing in Scotland. Based on six surviving enciphered dispatches between the Regent of Scotland and the French ambassadors between 1553 and 1560, it analyses Guise’s increasing reliance on secret writing in periods of war or...

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Main Authors: Armel Dubois-Nayt, Valérie Nachef
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2020-11-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/6713