Deciphering three diplomatic letters sent by Maximilian II in 1575

Kopal, Nils; Waldispühl, Michelle

doi:10.1080/01611194.2020.1858370

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“…While letters A-C presented in Kopal and Waldispühl (2021) were sent by Maximilian II to his Polish and Lithuanian delegates in July 1575 (letter A) and on 23 and 24 December 1575 (letter C and B), respectively, the current letters D and E are dated earlier and were sent by the Lithuanian nobleman, Grand Marshal of Lithuania, Johan Chodkiewicz. They show the perspective and interests of the Lithuanian higher nobility in late 1574 and early 1575 as presented to Maximilian II.…”

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“…Finally, Section 6 concludes this paper. We published a detailed article about the decipherment, content, and linguistic analysis of the letters A-C in (Kopal and Waldispühl, 2021). In the same article, we also present the historical background of the happenings referred to in the letters in more detail and give an overview on previous work on Habsburg cryptography (e.g.…”

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Two Encrypted Diplomatic Letters Sent by Jan Chodkiewicz to Emperor Maximilian II in 1574-1575

Kopal¹,

Waldispühl²

2021

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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This paper presents the work on two encrypted diplomatic letters sent by the Lithuanian nobleman Jan Chodkiewicz to emperor Maximilian II in 1574 and 1575. It describes the decipherment process as well as the content and the context of the letters. Furthermore, it provides linguistic aspects of the used plaintext language. It continues our previous work on Habsburg ciphers where we analyzed and contextualized three diplomatic letters sent by Maximilian II. All presented and analyzed letters relate to the Polish-Lithuanian election in 1575, where Maximilian II, his son Ernst, and his brother Ferdinand were amongst the candidates. The deciphered German plaintexts of all five letters can be accessed via the DE-CODE database, a storage for historical encrypted manuscripts, which is maintained by members of the DECRYPT project.

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Two Encrypted Diplomatic Letters Sent by Jan Chodkiewicz to Emperor Maximilian II in 1574-1575

Kopal¹,

Waldispühl²

2021

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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An STS analysis of a digital humanities collaboration: trading zones, boundary objects, and interactional expertise in the DECRYPT project

Láng,

Megyesi

2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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A widely shared recognition over the past decade is that the methodology and the basic concepts of science and technology studies (STS) can be used to analyze collaborations in the cross-disciplinary field of digital humanities (DH). The concepts of trading zones (Galison, 2010), boundary objects (Star and Griesemer, 1989), and interactional expertise (Collins and Evans, 2007) are particularly fruitful for describing projects in which researchers from massively different epistemic cultures (Knorr Cetina, 1999) are trying to develop a common language. The literature, however, primarily concentrates on examples where only two parties, historians and IT experts, work together. More exciting perspectives open up for analysis when more than two, more nuanced and different epistemic cultures seek a common language and common research goals. In the DECRYPT project funded by the Swedish Research Council, computational linguists, historians, computer scientists and AI experts, cryptologists, computer vision specialists, historical linguists, archivists, and philologists collaborate with strikingly different methodologies, publication patterns, and approaches. They develop and use common resources (including a database and a large collection of European historical texts) and tools (among others a code-breaking software, a hand-written text recognition tool for transcription), researching partly overlapping topics (handwritten historical ciphers and keys) to reach common goals. In this article, we aim to show how the STS concepts are illuminating when describing the mechanisms of the DECRYPT collaboration and shed some light on the best practices and challenges of a truly cross-disciplinary DH project.

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Deciphering three diplomatic letters sent by Maximilian II in 1575

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Two Encrypted Diplomatic Letters Sent by Jan Chodkiewicz to Emperor Maximilian II in 1574-1575

Two Encrypted Diplomatic Letters Sent by Jan Chodkiewicz to Emperor Maximilian II in 1574-1575

An STS analysis of a digital humanities collaboration: trading zones, boundary objects, and interactional expertise in the DECRYPT project

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