Early Modern Graphic Literacies
@emodgral.bsky.social
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.
Our conference intern, Anna, wrote about the Reading visuals conference. Read their post here: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...
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...
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June 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Our conference intern, Anna, wrote about the Reading visuals conference. Read their post here: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...
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Our conference assistant blogs about the recent @emodgral.bsky.social conference blogit.utu.fi/englishturku...
Visualising knowledge: reflections from the Reading Visual Devices conference ← EnglanTY
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June 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Our conference assistant blogs about the recent @emodgral.bsky.social conference blogit.utu.fi/englishturku...
The final keynote of the conference was given by Andrew Riggsby on The Segmentation of Roman Documents.
May 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The final keynote of the conference was given by Andrew Riggsby on The Segmentation of Roman Documents.
Pronouns on the page with @jansfi.bsky.social at the Reading Visual devices conference
May 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Pronouns on the page with @jansfi.bsky.social at the Reading Visual devices conference
Starting Day 2 of Reading Visual Devices Conference: the morning started with keynote Carla Suhr's lecture after which we enjoyed coffee together📚
May 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Starting Day 2 of Reading Visual Devices Conference: the morning started with keynote Carla Suhr's lecture after which we enjoyed coffee together📚
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!
May 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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!
Dr. Hanna Salmi on the representations of movement in early dance manuals.
May 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Dr. Hanna Salmi on the representations of movement in early dance manuals.
Reading visual devices conference started off with a great keynote by Professor Wendy Scase on the visual reading of family genealogies. 📖📚
May 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Reading visual devices conference started off with a great keynote by Professor Wendy Scase on the visual reading of family genealogies. 📖📚
Our post-doc Aino Liira's article on reader interaction with graphic devices is out now in Renaissance Studies! doi.org/10.1111/rest...
Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆
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....
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May 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Our post-doc Aino Liira's article on reader interaction with graphic devices is out now in Renaissance Studies! doi.org/10.1111/rest...
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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....
This is a zoom event, and all are welcome! Sign up here: konsta.utu.fi/Default.aspx....
April 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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....
This is a zoom event, and all are welcome! Sign up here: konsta.utu.fi/Default.aspx....
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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).
March 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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).
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New book edited by @emodgral.bsky.social project members! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
March 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New book edited by @emodgral.bsky.social project members! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
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Seminar IX coming up!
Workshop by Peter Grund (University of Yale): “Space, spacing, pace, and the fictional representation of speech”.
Wednesday 28 May 2025, at 16.00-18.00 EEST, on Zoom.
Workshop by Peter Grund (University of Yale): “Space, spacing, pace, and the fictional representation of speech”.
Wednesday 28 May 2025, at 16.00-18.00 EEST, on Zoom.
February 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Seminar IX coming up!
Workshop by Peter Grund (University of Yale): “Space, spacing, pace, and the fictional representation of speech”.
Wednesday 28 May 2025, at 16.00-18.00 EEST, on Zoom.
Workshop by Peter Grund (University of Yale): “Space, spacing, pace, and the fictional representation of speech”.
Wednesday 28 May 2025, at 16.00-18.00 EEST, on Zoom.
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-...
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
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...
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February 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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-...
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
@mlvarila.bsky.social on the development of data collection principles for the EModGraL project: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...
Graphic devices in English incunabula – Early Modern Graphic Literacies
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November 5, 2024 at 3:39 PM
@mlvarila.bsky.social on the development of data collection principles for the EModGraL project: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...
Two days to the abstract deadline! Chop chop!
CfP2 for our conference on graphic/visual devices is out! See more at blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...
CfP2: Reading visual devices in early books – Early Modern Graphic Literacies
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October 29, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Two days to the abstract deadline! Chop chop!
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....
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...
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October 9, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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....
CfP2 for our conference on graphic/visual devices is out! See more at blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...
CfP2: Reading visual devices in early books – Early Modern Graphic Literacies
blogit.utu.fi
September 17, 2024 at 2:45 PM
CfP2 for our conference on graphic/visual devices is out! See more at blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...
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...
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...
April 23, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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...
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...
(Photo by Antti Ijäs!)
EModGraL scholar @sirkkur.bsky.social at Humboldt-Kolleg (Helsinki, 13-15.3) on the diagrammatics of English 16th c. military manuals.
April 3, 2024 at 6:37 AM
(Photo by Antti Ijäs!)
EModGraL scholar @sirkkur.bsky.social at Humboldt-Kolleg (Helsinki, 13-15.3) on the diagrammatics of English 16th c. military manuals.
April 3, 2024 at 6:36 AM
EModGraL scholar @sirkkur.bsky.social at Humboldt-Kolleg (Helsinki, 13-15.3) on the diagrammatics of English 16th c. military manuals.
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
January 9, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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