TiTaRa
@titaraproject.bsky.social
Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla (TiTaRa) -hanke (2023-2025) | Between Science and Magic project | Rahoittaja/Funded by Koneen Säätiö | University of Turku
Uusi TiTaRa-artikkeli on saatavilla! Yhteistyökumppanimme Peter Grund kirjoitti Sara Norjan kanssa yhteisartikkelin alkemististen käsikirjoitusten tuotannosta. Artikkeli on nyt luettavissa alkemian ja kemian historiaa käsittelevässä Ambixissa: doi.org/10.1080/0002...
#koneensäätiö @koneensaatio.fi
#koneensäätiö @koneensaatio.fi
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 1:53 PM
Uusi TiTaRa-artikkeli on saatavilla! Yhteistyökumppanimme Peter Grund kirjoitti Sara Norjan kanssa yhteisartikkelin alkemististen käsikirjoitusten tuotannosta. Artikkeli on nyt luettavissa alkemian ja kemian historiaa käsittelevässä Ambixissa: doi.org/10.1080/0002...
#koneensäätiö @koneensaatio.fi
#koneensäätiö @koneensaatio.fi
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
🇨🇭 Lokakuussa Ida puhui työn alla olevasta artikkelistaan keskiajan Englannin kieleen, kulttuuriin ja kirjallisuuteen keskittyvässä SEM XXV:ssa (25. Studientag Englisches Mittelalter) Zürichissä. 1/
#titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö @koneensaatio.fi
#titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö @koneensaatio.fi
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🇨🇭 Lokakuussa Ida puhui työn alla olevasta artikkelistaan keskiajan Englannin kieleen, kulttuuriin ja kirjallisuuteen keskittyvässä SEM XXV:ssa (25. Studientag Englisches Mittelalter) Zürichissä. 1/
#titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö @koneensaatio.fi
#titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö @koneensaatio.fi
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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 🙏
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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
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....
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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
💐 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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While working on TiTaRa, our researchers Mari-Liisa and Sara have also found time to edit a special issue of Renaissance Studies!
@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/...
Introduction: the (im)material spectrum of manuscript and print interaction☆
This introductory essay to the special issue on Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print first outlines previous research into different kinds of interaction between manuscr...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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.
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.
While working on TiTaRa, our researchers Mari-Liisa and Sara have also found time to edit a special issue of Renaissance Studies!
@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/...
Introduction: the (im)material spectrum of manuscript and print interaction☆
This introductory essay to the special issue on Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print first outlines previous research into different kinds of interaction between manuscr...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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
February 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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
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Harjoittelijamme Salla kirjoitti symposium-kokemuksestaan Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan Hiiskuttua -verkkojulkaisuun!
Lue juttu täältä: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...
#titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö
Lue juttu täältä: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...
#titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö
Avustajana Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla -symposiumissa
Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla (TiTaRa) -hanke järjesti 10.–11.10.2024 Turun yliopistossa Between Science and Magic -konferenssin, jossa kuultiin monialaisesti kiehtovia esityksiä useista kulttuureis...
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December 12, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Harjoittelijamme Salla kirjoitti symposium-kokemuksestaan Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan Hiiskuttua -verkkojulkaisuun!
Lue juttu täältä: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...
#titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö
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
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
December 20, 2024 at 9:30 AM
✨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
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
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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...
Introduction to European Medieval Manuscripts (2025) – CalRBS
www.calrbs.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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
Lue juttu täältä: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...
#titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö
Avustajana Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla -symposiumissa
Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla (TiTaRa) -hanke järjesti 10.–11.10.2024 Turun yliopistossa Between Science and Magic -konferenssin, jossa kuultiin monialaisesti kiehtovia esityksiä useista kulttuureis...
sites.utu.fi
December 12, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Harjoittelijamme Salla kirjoitti symposium-kokemuksestaan Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan Hiiskuttua -verkkojulkaisuun!
Lue juttu täältä: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...
#titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö
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!
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!
November 25, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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!
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!
There's still time to apply for a Bodleian Library Fellowship. This year for the first time one of them is in Polish Studies!
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Visiting Fellowships at the Bodleian Libraries
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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!
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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.
Please do share any photos you snapped and we'll repost our favourites.
November 20, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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.
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
#titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö
TiTaRa: Between Science and Magic Symposium Through the Eyes of an Assistant ← EnglanTY
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November 20, 2024 at 11:23 AM
🖋️ 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
#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
#titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation #kaivolla
Tutkijakohtaamisia tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla - Koneen Säätiö
TiTaRa-hanke järjesti lokakuussa monitieteisen symposiumin Between Science and Magic. Symposiumavustaja Helena Elmnäinen kertoo tapahtuman annista.
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November 13, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Harjoittelijamme Helena kirjoitti lokakuisesta symposiumistamme @koneensaatio.bsky.social Kaivolla-blogiin! Jutun voi lukea täältä: koneensaatio.fi/tarinat-ja-j...
#titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation #kaivolla
#titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation #kaivolla
We had a great team day last week!
Project wellbeing day @titaraproject.bsky.social style = pizza, snacks and role-playing games!
November 13, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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
October 10, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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
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
October 4, 2024 at 9:13 AM
🍁 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
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
