Mari-Liisa Varila
@mlvarila.bsky.social
Early English books | manuscript and print | between medieval & early modern | PhD | Lecturer, English @utu.fi | PI @titaraproject.bsky.social | she/her
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📢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
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
careers.universiteitleiden.nl
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
📢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
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
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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
#konefoundation #titaraproject #alchemy
Alchemy, the Vernacular, and Text Production in Late Medieval England: Presentation Strategies in Trinity College, Cambridge, MSS O.5.31 and R.14.37
The article studies the strategies that late-medieval scribes used to present alchemical texts to their audience. Investigating two late fifteenth-century alchemical codices – Trinity College, Camb...
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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
#konefoundation #titaraproject #alchemy
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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!
November 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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!
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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
🔗: https://bit.ly/473znDa
October 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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
🔗: https://bit.ly/473znDa
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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
fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6...
handschriftencensus.de/werke/181
September 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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
fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6...
handschriftencensus.de/werke/181
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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...
Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory
www.pennpress.org/978151282705...
Facsimile – Penn Press
An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscriptsFacsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts h...
www.pennpress.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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...
Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory
www.pennpress.org/978151282705...
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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.
📜 📚💙
It's (I think) a copy of the Decretum Gratiani, a compendium of canon law dated shortly after 1140.
📜 📚💙
October 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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.
📜 📚💙
It's (I think) a copy of the Decretum Gratiani, a compendium of canon law dated shortly after 1140.
📜 📚💙
Coffee break and stab binding
October 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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 🙏
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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
September 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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
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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....
August 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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
July 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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!
July 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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
June 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Getting to paint tiny badgers is definitely one of the perks of playing TTRPGs
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💐 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). +
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). +
June 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
💐 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). +
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). +
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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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14774658...
Renaissance Studies: Vol 0, No 0
Click on the title to browse this issue
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14774658...
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♦️ 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...
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
Lecturer in Old English | University College Cork
UCC wishes to appoint a scholar with a proven commitment to excellence in teaching and research to the role of Lecturer in Old English.
www.ucc.ie
June 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
♦️ 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...
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
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
blogit.utu.fi
June 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Our conference assistant blogs about the recent @emodgral.bsky.social conference blogit.utu.fi/englishturku...
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📅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
📜 #TOEBI2025: "Education and Early Medieval England"
🏫 University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
🗣️ Alice Jorgensen @tcddublin.bsky.social
🗣️ Lindy Brady, Edge Hill University
#️⃣ #medievalsky #OldEnglish
May 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
📅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
📜 #TOEBI2025: "Education and Early Medieval England"
🏫 University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social
🗣️ Alice Jorgensen @tcddublin.bsky.social
🗣️ Lindy Brady, Edge Hill University
#️⃣ #medievalsky #OldEnglish
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🌸 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.
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.
May 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🌸 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.
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.
Reposted by Mari-Liisa Varila
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
www.infoclio.ch/de/cfp-beyon...
conference Jan 14-15, 2026 Geneva
@infoclio.bsky.social
#libraries #MaterialCulture #HistSci
CfP: Beyond Books: Instruments and Knowledge in Libraries
www.infoclio.ch
May 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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
www.infoclio.ch/de/cfp-beyon...
conference Jan 14-15, 2026 Geneva
@infoclio.bsky.social
#libraries #MaterialCulture #HistSci
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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...
doi.org/10.1111/rest...
Print Conventions and Authority in Three English Recipe Manuscripts
This article considers the uses of stylistic and visual conventions drawn from print books in three seventeenth- and eighteenth-century recipe manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania. We begin ...
doi.org
May 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1111/rest...
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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!
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....
May 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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!
May 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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!