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Early Modern Graphic Literacies

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Project by Research Council of Finland, 2021-25 | Use of graphic devices + development of graphic literacies in England 1473-1800 | PI Matti Peikola, tweets by team members.

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An intern’s path in the Emodgral conference Early modern graphic literacies (Emodgral) is a multidisciplinary research project, with participating scholars from around the world. The theme of this conference revolved around graphic and visual d...

Our conference intern, Anna, wrote about the Reading visuals conference. Read their post here: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...

18.06.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Visualising knowledge: reflections from the Reading Visual Devices conference ← EnglanTY

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

06.06.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The final keynote of the conference was given by Andrew Riggsby on The Segmentation of Roman Documents.

24.05.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pronouns on the page with @jansfi.bsky.social at the Reading Visual devices conference

24.05.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Starting Day 2 of Reading Visual Devices Conference: the morning started with keynote Carla Suhr's lecture after which we enjoyed coffee togetherπŸ“š

23.05.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Day 1 of Reading Visual Devices was a huge success! Some of the amazing speakers included our very own Matti Peikola and Mari-Liisa Varila. Can't wait to hear more fascinating papers tomorrow!

22.05.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr. Hanna Salmi on the representations of movement in early dance manuals.

22.05.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Reading visual devices conference started off with a great keynote by Professor Wendy Scase on the visual reading of family genealogies. πŸ“–πŸ“š

22.05.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Booksβ˜† Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well-established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interac....

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

07.05.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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....

28.04.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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My first venture into the 17th century, in collaboration with Jukka TyrkkΓΆ, is now available in Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English, ed. by M. Peikola, J. TyrkkΓΆ & @mlvarila.bsky.social (Brepols).

04.03.2025 08:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New book edited by @emodgral.bsky.social project members! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

04.03.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Seminar IX coming up!

Workshop by Peter Grund (University of Yale): β€œSpace, spacing, pace, and the fictional representation of speech”.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, at 16.00-18.00 EEST, on Zoom.

17.02.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Brepols - Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...

Project's new book, Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English (ed by Peikola, TyrkkΓΆ, @mlvarila.bsky.social) is now available for preorder!

www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

17.02.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Graphic devices in English incunabula – Early Modern Graphic Literacies

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

05.11.2024 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two days to the abstract deadline! Chop chop!

29.10.2024 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Presenting manuscript tables and diagrams to the Middle English reader | John Benjamins Abstract In this paper, we examine information-organising graphic devices such as tables and diagrams in Middle English manuscripts. Our focus is on text producers’ metadiscourse describing these devi...

A new publication by Matti Peikola and @mlvarila.bsky.social, 'Presenting Manuscript tables and diagrams to the Middle English reader'. Go see more at blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202....

09.10.2024 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
CfP2: Reading visual devices in early books – Early Modern Graphic Literacies

CfP2 for our conference on graphic/visual devices is out! See more at blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...

17.09.2024 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

CfP 1 for our conference, Reading visual devices in early books, is out!

Keynote speakers:
Prof. Andrew M. Riggsby (University of Texas)
Prof. Wendy Scase (University of Birmingham)
Dr Carla Suhr (University of Helsinki)

For more information, see blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...

23.04.2024 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(Photo by Antti IjΓ€s!)

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EModGraL scholar @sirkkur.bsky.social at Humboldt-Kolleg (Helsinki, 13-15.3) on the diagrammatics of English 16th c. military manuals.

03.04.2024 06:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

The Early Modern Graphic Literacies project, funded by the Reseach Council of Finland, 2021-25, is now on Bluesky! We study English printed books 1500-1800 to find out how graphic devices e.g. tables and diagrams were used in the #EarlyModern period. #BookHistory

09.01.2024 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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