New @titaraproject.bsky.social article alert! My piece in The Library examines the English-language alchemical texts attributed to Roger Bacon. Really happy this is out!

Job klaxon! Come and be an Early Modernist at UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Töitä tarjolla Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnassa! Haemme läheistä kollegaa minulle tiedejulkaisemisen näköalapaikalle. Linkki hakuilmoitukseen kommenteissa.

@saranorja.bsky.social and I guest edited a special issue of Renaissance Studies – the articles have been out for a while, but now everything is finished! Many thanks to our excellent contributors, reviewers, and the RS team onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14774658...

Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #multimodality #digitalhumanities

Millaista on työskennellä roolipelisuunnittelijana tutkimushankkeessa? Pelisuunnittelija, kirjailija Kristel Nyberg oli mukana Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla -hankkeessa @titaraproject.bsky.social. Hän kertoo Kaivolla-blogissa pöytäroolipelin luomisesta ja yhteistyöstä tutkijoiden kanssa:

Research pipeline update time

Mitä roolipelisuunnittelija tekee? Miten yhdistetään tieteellinen tutkimus ja roolipeli? Mitä roolipelillä edes tarkoitetaan? Näihin ja muihin kysymyksiin vastaa Kristelin kirjoitus @koneensaatio.fi Kaivolla-blogissa! #titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation koneensaatio.fi/tarinat-ja-j...

Sara's article on alchemical metaphors is now officially published!

The special issue Between Science and Magic (Mirator 2/2025) edited by Ida, Sara and Karolina Kouvola is out now! The special issue continues with the themes of our symposium last year as Carla Suhr and Antti Ijäs explore the intermingling of science and magic. journal.fi/mirator/issu...

Idan, Saran ja Karolina Kouvolan toimittama erikoisnumero Between Science and Magic (Mirator 2/2025) on ilmestynyt! Viime vuotisesta symposiumista kummunneessa erikoisnumerossa Carla Suhr ja Antti Ijäs pohtivat tieteen ja taikuuden yhteenkietoutumista. journal.fi/mirator/issu...

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026

Another TiTaRa article is out online! Our collaborator Peter Grund wrote an article together with Sara Norja on alchemical manuscript production. You can now read it online in Ambix, a journal on the history of alchemy and chemistry: doi.org/10.1080/0002... #konefoundation #titaraproject #alchemy

We are thrilled to announce this year's rendition of the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition - an online lecture series organised by the German Maritime Museum and the Prize Papers Project! The first talk will be on November 10th, with Jane Ohlmeyer, Tom Truxes, and John Shovlin on the Amity Papers!

This early 16th century collection of papal letters dealing with the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine has a secret - a scrap of unidentified earlier manuscript that lurks in the depths of the spine. What could it be? We don’t know. (UPenn Ms. Codex 85) #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/473znDa

Unnoticed fragment from a medieval martyrology in German! One full MS is preserved in Jena (hence Jenaer Martyrologium), two other fragments are known. This one has many variants in the German dialect. Specialists' comments welcome! fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6... handschriftencensus.de/werke/181

Published today! Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts, by Siân Echard. Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory www.pennpress.org/978151282705...

It's #FragmentFriday! Have a look at this #Antwerp almanac for the year 1568. It's bound in a vellum fragment with writing from what seems to be the late 12th century. #Medieval #Paleography It's (I think) a copy of the Decretum Gratiani, a compendium of canon law dated shortly after 1140. 📜 📚💙

Coffee break and stab binding

Tänään kokoustimme @titaraproject.bsky.social kesken ja suunnittelimme tulevia julkaisuja aina akateemisista artikkeleista roolipelin taittoon sekä tapahtumia konferensseista testipeleihin. Hankkeessa on edelleen paras meininki! Hyvää säätiöpäivää ja lämmin kiitos tuesta @koneensaatio.fi 🙏

We spent this evening telling kids about Old English and manuscripts at the Science Night organised by Lounais-Suomen LUMA-keskus (photo by them). Excellent work matching OE/PDE/Finnish words, reading manuscript facsimiles, and writing with dip pens 🤩 @titaraproject.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi

New TiTaRa article out! Sara's "Nourishing the alchemical child: metaphors of family life as textual cohesion in the fifteenth-century The Gracious Work" is out in first view in BJHS Themes: doi.org/10.1017/bjt....

We tested our project’s tabletop role-playing game Written in the Stars @ Ropecon. It focuses on alchemists, astrologers and magic practitioners – and their communities – in medieval and early modern England. Launch in Finnish & English in 2026. @koneensaatio.fi @utu.fi @titaraproject.bsky.social

Ropeconin ohjelma on julkaistu! TiTaRa-hankkeen tiimoilta pidämme siellä paneelikeskustelun historian pelillistämisestä. Kiitos tuesta @koneensaatio.fi!

Getting to paint tiny badgers is definitely one of the perks of playing TTRPGs

💐 Event season of spring/summer 2025, part 2 Ida attended the 8th international symposium on history of English lexicography and lexicology in Tallinn, Estonia, last week. She presented her research on Old English and Latin words for magical practitioners (& what they have to do with each other). +

All the articles of the special issue @mlvarila.bsky.social and I edited, "Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print" (Renaissance Studies), are now out in early view! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14774658...

♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely! www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

Our conference assistant blogs about the recent @emodgral.bsky.social conference blogit.utu.fi/englishturku...

📅Save the date: Sat. 25th Oct. 2025‼️ 📜 #TOEBI2025: "Education and Early Medieval England" 🏫 University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social 🗣️ Alice Jorgensen @tcddublin.bsky.social 🗣️ Lindy Brady, Edge Hill University #️⃣ #medievalsky #OldEnglish

🌸 Event season of spring/summer 2025, part 1 🌸 Last week, Sara gave a talk on alchemical manuscripts' visual features at the Reading Visual Devices in Early Books conference, held in Turku. The conference was organised by @emodgral.bsky.social, which TiTaRa's Mari-Liisa is also part of.

CfP: Beyond Books: Instruments and Knowledge in Libraries www.infoclio.ch/de/cfp-beyon... conference Jan 14-15, 2026 Geneva @infoclio.bsky.social #libraries #MaterialCulture #HistSci

Alchemy expert Margaret Maurer and I went deep into the Penn cookery archives to see how recipe books mash up the aesthetics of different media. Featuring manuscripts that (sort of) look printed, print that looks handwritten, and a 20c book that looks “historical.” doi.org/10.1111/rest...

Still a couple of days to register for this excellent online event my colleagues and I are organising! Peter Grund is great and this workshop is going to be a lot of fun. Do sign up!

Finland 10 pm. May is definitely one of the best months to be here. Two excellent days of the @emodgral.bsky.social conference done, one to go. Enjoying every minute!

New open-access book from @brepols.net on medieval debates over cosmology in the context of Aristotle's book on meteorology, for readers of French: www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB... #medievalsky #histsci

Dr. Hanna Salmi on the representations of movement in early dance manuals.

A quick question for manuscript people: can you think of any other examples where a scribe/translator notes *per manum* 'by the hand of' with a little drawing of a hand - as below?

Manuscript, print, and binding waste. Thanks @mlvarila.bsky.social and @saranorja.bsky.social for all your work shepherding this special issue of @srsrensoc.bsky.social Renaissance Studies: doi.org/10.1111/rest...

The proofs for Academic Households in #EarlyModern Northern Europe have arrived ✨

We are planning a festive issue for our tenth anniversary🥳. We are looking for potential contributions! #CfP, please spread this as widely as possible. And get in touch if you have questions, all details below. #LowCountries

📜 Call for papers! This conference in October 2025 will explore allegory’s role in sciences from 1300–1700 — in anatomy, astrology, alchemy, and beyond. 🗓️ Submit by 15 June Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/CFP--... #HistoryOfScience #CallForPapers

New volume out today! The Stockholm Bloodbath on November 7–9, 1520 is a turning point in the history of the Northern kingdoms. This volume offers new insights into the events and their background and aftermath, far beyond Stockholm and the year 1520. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Our post-doc Aino Liira's article on reader interaction with graphic devices is out now in Renaissance Studies! doi.org/10.1111/rest...

@saranorja.bsky.social and I edited a special issue on Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print, and the articles are beginning to appear in early view. I’m going to link to all the excellent contributions, but first, our OA intro: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Welcome to the 9th Material Text Seminar - a workshop with Peter J. Grund: "Space, spacing, and pace, and the fictional representation of speech" on May 28th. This is a zoom event, and all are welcome! Sign up here: konsta.utu.fi/Default.aspx....

Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜 thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...