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The Secret Seekers: Codes, Ciphers and the Hidden Lives of Tudor Women de Vanessa Braganza

The Secret Seekers: Codes, Ciphers and the Hidden Lives of Tudor Women

Autor Vanessa Braganza
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 apr 2027
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.
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ISBN-13: 9781805222583
ISBN-10: 1805222589
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Vanessa Braganza is a literary historian and book detective and holds a PhD from Harvard University. Her historical discoveries have been profiled in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Times and others, and she writes for Smithsonian, Times Literary Supplement and the Boston Globe. In 2022, Braganza was named a Harvard Horizons Scholar and a Bowdoin Prize recipient.

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This exquisite book - part-history, part-detective story - is as fascinating for the hidden histories it uncovers as for the process of conducting the research. From the forgotten corners of Hampton Court to the treasure trove of libraries, archives and architectural ruins, it takes the reader on a fascinating journey of discovery that keeps them guessing from the first page to the last
Never have the silences of history been shattered to such luminous effect. With a care and a joyous erudition that borders on the sorcerous, Braganza deciphers the coded messages of some of the most vital women of the past to deliver the smartest most exciting feminist history in generations. Equal parts rescue mission, detective story and revindication, this groundbreaking enchantment of a book should be in everyone's hands
Step aside, Robert Langdon, the real book detective is on the case! Chronicling adventures from solving a 500-year-old mystery to hunting the secrets of a library ghost to cracking the ciphers of a tragic queen, this book is learned, charming, and mischievous
I would follow Vanessa Braganza anywhere - into every archive, every overgrown garden, every battered manuscript. She reads a royal marriage in crisis from a pendant design and an illicit love affair from letters tangled on a book cover. The Secret Seekers leaves you certain that the women of Renaissance England were talking to us all along, in codes history had forgotten how to read. Braganza makes the past surrender its secrets