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

💐 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). +

While working on TiTaRa, our researchers Mari-Liisa and Sara have also found time to edit a special issue of Renaissance Studies!

🌸 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.

While working on TiTaRa, our researchers Mari-Liisa and Sara have also found time to edit a special issue of Renaissance Studies!

Viime viikolla väitöskirjatutkijamme Ida vieraili Cambridgessa ja osallistui Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic -konferenssiin. Ida puhui muinaisenglantilaisesta noita-sanastosta parantamisen ja sairauden yhteyksissä. #titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö #ccasnc

Harjoittelijamme Salla kirjoitti symposium-kokemuksestaan Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan Hiiskuttua -verkkojulkaisuun! Lue juttu täältä: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a... #titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö

✨TiTaRa wishes everyone a lovely winter solstice, merry Yuletide and a happy New Year ✨ The past year has been full of activities & work and it's now time to quiet down for a bit. Next year will be the last full year of the project! + #titaraproject @koneensaatio.fi

I'll be teaching at the California Rare Book School next summer. If you'd like an intro to medieval manuscripts, please consider applying. And if you know anyone who would be interested, please spread the word. www.calrbs.org/introduction...

Harjoittelijamme Salla kirjoitti symposium-kokemuksestaan Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan Hiiskuttua -verkkojulkaisuun! Lue juttu täältä: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a... #titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö

There's still time to submit an abstract for the Between Science and Magic special issue! 🔮📚⚗️ Proposals are welcome from all, whether you presented a paper at our symposium or not, and on all topics related to the themes of the special issue (see CfP in photo). Send us your proposals!

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!

Possibly our favourite snow pic from yesterday, showing the Rad Cam. Taken by our very own librarian www.instagram.com/spiralling_oxford. Please do share any photos you snapped and we'll repost our favourites.

🖋️ Our intern Maija wrote about her experience as a symposium assistant for the U of Turku English Department blog! You can check out her musings at blogit.utu.fi/englishturku... #titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö

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

We had a great team day last week!

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

🍁 Conference autumn part 2🍁 TiTaRa researchers Mari-Liisa and Sara attended a conference last week in Aarhus (DK). The multidisciplinary conf, organised by the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies, gave us 3 days of intriguing papers & other programme. #titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö

Conference excursion to Rosenholm Slot #notalion

For #CoffeeWithACodex on October 3 (12pm Noon EST, on Zoom), Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 500, a 15th century alchemical and medical compendium containing recipes and texts from a variety of sources. Everyone is welcome! Register to attend. Register 🔗 : https://bit.ly/4d8DtJK

Tänään on #säätiöpäivä ! Nämäkin muinaisenglantilaisten tekstien editiot on kammattu läpi Koneen Säätiön tuella @koneensaatio.bsky.social. #säätiötekoja #October1Europe #koneensäätiö 1/

#openaccessmiddleages K M Rudy, Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts. Vol 2: Social Encounters with the Book (2024). Link: www.openbookpublishe...#openaccessmiddleages #medievaltwitter

Last week, TiTaRa attended a symposium on the Histories of Expertise at the U of Turku (19-20 Sept). @mlvarila.bsky.social & @saranorja.bsky.social gave a talk on how alchemists and astrologers are described in Early Modern English printed books (c. 1500-1600). 1/

Come to Turku for 2 days of exploring practices & worldviews of people operating btwn science & magic, & those engaging in #witchcraft & #esotericism! #medievalsky #earlymodern Sign-ups are still open for our Between Science and Magic symposium, 10-11 Oct! DL 31 Aug! blogit.utu.fi/titaraturku2...

🧙 TiTaRa x Ropecon 🧙 TiTaRan koko projektitiimi löytyy la 20.7. klo 13-13.45 Helsingin Messukeskuksen salista 103 puhumassa noidista, alkemiasta, astrologiasta ja roolipeleistä Euroopan suurimmassa vapaaehtoisvoimin järjestetyssä roolipelitapahtumassa! #koneensäätiö #titaraproject #ropecon2024

Tätä luvassa nyt perjantaina Turussa!

🔮TiTaRa x Keskiajan Turku🔮 Kiinnostaako keskiaika? Entä magia, noituus tai alkemia? Oletko Turussa kesäkuun lopulla? Tule siis Via Tribunalin terassille perjantaina 28.6. klo 18! #titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation #keskiajanturku

A database of Polish medieval manuscripts - including MSS in Polish repositories, of Polish origin/provenance, lost manuscripts, and fragments - has now launched! Take a look 👀 manuscripta.pl 📜

This is huge news. The microfilm (& OCR?) of EEBO and The Eighteenth Century (ie ECCO) is available via Internet Archive! I need to dig derper but I wonder about the reactions from libraries, Gale, and ProQuest. H/T to David Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social for sharing news. archive.org/details/bim_...

Presenting a hole in the margin..... MS Dd.4.17; Books of Hours; East Anglia; 14th Century C.E.; f.36v @CamDigLib

How do we view texts in historical #corpuslinguistics and how does this influence our research? I wrote a piece with Samuli Kaislaniemi (in Finnish, with an English abstract) on the layered #materiality of historical texts in corpus linguistics: researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/publicati...

On Wednesday the project team met to discuss plans for the upcoming summer and fall. Afterwards we visited the Pharmacy museum. The riverside museum charmed us with its historical decor, pharmacy equipment (some related to alchemy) and exhibition on mercury. #titaraproject #konefoundation

New publication! @saranorja.bsky.social and @mlvarila.bsky.socialin laajemmalle yleisölle suunnattu luku historiallisista tekstikäsityksistä on nyt julkaistu. Komea kirja kaikkinensa! #titaraproject #koneensäätiö #tiedeviestintä #konefoundation

New publication! @saranorja.bsky.social and @mlvarila.bsky.socialin laajemmalle yleisölle suunnattu luku historiallisista tekstikäsityksistä on nyt julkaistu. Komea kirja kaikkinensa! #titaraproject #koneensäätiö #tiedeviestintä #konefoundation

How to design a game based on historical records? In my article, I explain the process behind the historical larp Talvikäräjät (Winter Ting). The larp was based on 17th-c. court records and aimed to reenact a rural society gathered in court. Read the article in Nordic Larp! Includes nice photos!

We had our last session of our project course on Friday. A huge thanks to all our lecturers and our delightfully numerous students! We loved getting to organise this course. Wishing you all a joyous May Day - in Finland it's a huge deal! #titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation #hyväävappua

Reminder that we've got an awesome symposium coming up in Turku, Finland (10–11 October 2024) 📚🔮⚗️ Send your paper proposal for Between Science and Magic to [email protected] by 30 April 2024! For more info, see blogit.utu.fi/titaraturku2...

Reminder that we've got an awesome symposium coming up in Turku, Finland (10–11 October 2024) 📚🔮⚗️ Send your paper proposal for Between Science and Magic to [email protected] by 30 April 2024! For more info, see blogit.utu.fi/titaraturku2...

Tällä viikolla Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla -kurssilla oli kunnon projektiviikko! Eilen Sara luennoi alkemian historiasta ja tänään Kristel luennoi roolipeleistä ja niiden käytöstä esimerkiksi opetuksessa ja osana tutkimuksen popularisointia. #titaraproject #koneensäätiö #roolipelit #larppaus 1/

Kristel's paper "History Is Our Playground", drawing from her thoughts on our project, has been published in the volume Liminal Encounters: Evolving Discourse in Nordic and Nordic-inspired Larp. #titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation #publication #solmukohta2024 #kristelnyberg #nordiclarp 1/

We're on bluesky! Hooray! Save the date! 📚📜📓 The Eighth Material Text Seminar will be held (via Zoom) on Wednesday 15 May 2024, 4-6 pm EEST. Signups soon! #materialtext #medievalsky #earlymodern #materiality #textualstudies

Kiitos @titaraproject.bsky.social kutsusta! Oli ihana päästä luennoimaan kiinnostuneille opiskelijoille kasvotusten ja nähdä lumista, mutta kaunista Turkua #parantamisenhistoriaa #turunyliopisto #postdoclife

Tältä näytti tänään TiTaRan luentokurssilla! Päivän luennon piti @kkouvola.bsky.social. Karolina kertoi elävästi kansanomaisen parantamisen moninaisuudesta sekä parantamisen ja lääketieteen rajamaista. #titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation 1/

Sara's long research visit to England is coming to an end. The past couple of weeks in Cambridge have been less hectic than Oxford, but full nonetheless: 16 manuscripts at the University Library & Trinity College's Wren Library (pictured in all its spring beauty). 1/ #titaraproject #konefoundation

Call for Papers: Between Science and Magic Symposium   International symposium in Turku, Finland: 10–11 October 2024. Submissions due by 30 April 2024, notifications of acceptance sent in May 2024.   Check out blogit.utu.fi/titaraturku2... for the full CFP! Reskeet widely!

Turun yliopistolla järjestettävä TiTaRa-kurssi alkoi viikko sitten! Monitieteisellä kurssilla käsitellään tieteenhistorian, esoterian ja uskonnon rajapinnoille sijoittuvia aiheita. 1/ #titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation

Call for Papers: Between Science and Magic Symposium   International symposium in Turku, Finland: 10–11 October 2024. Submissions due by 30 April 2024, notifications of acceptance sent in May 2024.   Check out blogit.utu.fi/titaraturku2... for the full CFP! Reskeet widely!

Sara's Bodleian Fellowship ended last Friday, but she's still up to manuscript shenanigans in the UK - now in Cambridge! Time to search for alchemical treatises to be used in future TiTaRa articles ⚗️ 1/ #titaraproject #cambridgeuniversity #cambridgeuniversitylibrary #konefoundation #koneensäätiö

The Oxford Literary Festival kicks off this Saturday! The Bodleian Libraries is a proud cultural partner to the festival. From Chaucer to conservation; and the Bodley Medal presentation to a book exchange; check out the talks and events we're hosting! visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/olf