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...

New book edited by @emodgral.bsky.social project members! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

My first venture into the 17th century, in collaboration with Jukka Tyrkkö, is now available in Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English, ed. by M. Peikola, J. Tyrkkö & @mlvarila.bsky.social (Brepols).

Last week our doctoral researcher Ida visited Cambridge to present a paper at the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic. Her paper dealt with Old English words for witches in contexts of healing and sickness. #titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö #ccasnc

Project's new book, Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English (ed by Peikola, Tyrkkö, @mlvarila.bsky.social) is now available for preorder! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

The final version of our data paper on the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension Sampler is now out! Freely available (both paper and corpus): doi.org/10.1163/2452... #corpusresources #corpuslinguistics #openaccess

Think you might use our digital edition *at all*? Then now is your chance to make sure it works for you as well as possible. Have a play and then press the feedback icon and spend 30 seconds or so letting us know what wasn't so great so we can try and fix it! #EarlyModern #Yorkshire #FamilyHistory

This lovely event in January is free and open to everyone: MEDIEVAL PIGMENTS AND MODERN PRACTICE: A WORKSHOP Come learn about medieval paint-making techniques and how they are used in contemporary art! #medieval #pigments www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medieval-p...

Visited the National Library of Finland today. Still pretty

Our postdoc @saranorja.bsky.social spent Hilary Term this year as a Bodleian Visiting Fellow. It was a wonderful opportunity to delve deep into @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social alchemical manuscripts! Our PI @mlvarila.bsky.social has also been a Bodleian Visiting Fellow. Recommended!

One day of snowfall and suddenly it’s a winter wonderland

*VERY EXCITING VACANCY* Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley. Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...

Harjoittelijamme Helena kirjoitti lokakuisesta symposiumistamme @koneensaatio.bsky.social Kaivolla-blogiin! Jutun voi lukea täältä: koneensaatio.fi/tarinat-ja-j... #titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation #kaivolla

Turku by night

#CallForPapers: The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade (5-7 November 2025, Antwerp). #Bookhistory #HerBook #WomensHistory #Herstory museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...

Project wellbeing day @titaraproject.bsky.social style = pizza, snacks and role-playing games!

@mlvarila.bsky.social on the development of data collection principles for the EModGraL project: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...

The scribe, nearly 4, writing from dictation. Double vowels and consonants are still challenging and the shapes of K, M, and N are not yet quite clear. She asked me not to say any word that contains an R because she “doesn’t know how to write it”.

New Crossing Boundaries volume out soon: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

The kid (nearly 4 already!) drew a unicorn

Getting ready to kick off our Between Science and Magic symposium! It's pouring with rain here in Turku, but we'll be cosy listening to fascinating talks 🔮 #betweenscienceandmagic #titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation