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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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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · Jun 18
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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Mari-Liisa Varila @mlvarila.bsky.social · Jun 6
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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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · May 24
The final keynote of the conference was given by Andrew Riggsby on The Segmentation of Roman Documents.
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · May 24
Pronouns on the page with @jansfi.bsky.social at the Reading Visual devices conference
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · May 23
Starting Day 2 of Reading Visual Devices Conference: the morning started with keynote Carla Suhr's lecture after which we enjoyed coffee together📚
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · May 22
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!
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · May 22
Dr. Hanna Salmi on the representations of movement in early dance manuals.
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · May 22
Reading visual devices conference started off with a great keynote by Professor Wendy Scase on the visual reading of family genealogies. 📖📚
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · May 7
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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Material Texts UTU @materialtextutu.bsky.social · Apr 28
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....
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Janne Sk @jansfi.bsky.social · Mar 4
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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Mari-Liisa Varila @mlvarila.bsky.social · Mar 4
New book edited by @emodgral.bsky.social project members! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
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Material Texts UTU @materialtextutu.bsky.social · Feb 17
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.
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · Feb 17
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!

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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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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · Nov 5
@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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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · Oct 29
Two days to the abstract deadline! Chop chop!
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · Sep 17
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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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · Oct 9
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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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · Sep 17
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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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · Apr 23
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...
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · Apr 3
(Photo by Antti Ijäs!)
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · Apr 3
EModGraL scholar @sirkkur.bsky.social at Humboldt-Kolleg (Helsinki, 13-15.3) on the diagrammatics of English 16th c. military manuals.
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · Apr 3
EModGraL scholar @sirkkur.bsky.social at Humboldt-Kolleg (Helsinki, 13-15.3) on the diagrammatics of English 16th c. military manuals.
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · Jan 9
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
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