Typologies of secret communication in the Modern Age

• Department of History

Lecture by Alessandra Pozzo in the framework of the HEC Department Colloquia.

When the use of traditional initiatory languages for the use of social classes, clans, schools of thought, bodies of trades, religious currents, artistic movements, and art workshops are not subject to modification, the cultural revolution introduced by modern thought generates specific private codes, necessary for the expression of new ways of perceiving reality. The ferments of these innovative imaginaries can already be found in the epigones of the medieval world. However, they emerge distinctly under the historical circumstance offered by Modernity, where the world is segmented into innumerable distinct realities following the collapse of the Roman Catholic unique thought.

This paper observes and compares some of the types of private codes, cryptic languages and means of secret communication inherent to different fields of knowledge that have arisen in this context.

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