"Several Keys to Ope' the Character": The Political and Cultural Significance of Timothy Bright's "Characterie"
Recent revival of interest in early modern shorthand has produced a corresponding interest in Timothy Bright s "characterie." Unfortunately this interest continues to render characterie as shorthand and thus obscures the cultural and political significance of a writing practice introduced...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
2002
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2002, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 945-961 |
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| Summary: | Recent revival of interest in early modern shorthand has produced a corresponding interest in Timothy Bright s "characterie." Unfortunately this interest continues to render characterie as shorthand and thus obscures the cultural and political significance of a writing practice introduced in the early modern period. By reading Bright's work across disciplinary and subdisciplinary boundaries its contemporary significance is uncovered. Bright was a man with political ambition, and his new technology for writing must be interrogated in a political context. Bright advertises characterie as a form of writing that is "shorte, swifte and secrete," which suggests that one of its intended functions was that of cryptography. The political sphere in which it was employed, however, was not that of diplomacy, but of religion. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/4144116 |