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Early Modern Graphic Literacies

@emodgral.bsky.social
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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 · 18/06/2025
Our conference intern, Anna, wrote about the Reading visuals conference. Read their post here: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...
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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...
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Mari-Liisa Varila @mlvarila.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Our conference assistant blogs about the recent @emodgral.bsky.social conference blogit.utu.fi/englishturku...
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Visualising knowledge: reflections from the Reading Visual Devices conference ← EnglanTY
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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 · 24/05/2025
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 · 23/05/2025
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 · 22/05/2025
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 · 22/05/2025
Dr. Hanna Salmi on the representations of movement in early dance manuals.
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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 · 07/05/2025
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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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 · 28/04/2025
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 · 04/03/2025
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 · 04/03/2025
New book edited by @emodgral.bsky.social project members! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
Photo of the cover of the book linked in the post
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Material Texts UTU @materialtextutu.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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 · 17/02/2025
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-...
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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 · 05/11/2024
@mlvarila.bsky.social on the development of data collection principles for the EModGraL project: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...
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Graphic devices in English incunabula – Early Modern Graphic Literacies
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Two days to the abstract deadline! Chop chop!
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
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....
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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 · 17/09/2024
CfP2 for our conference on graphic/visual devices is out! See more at blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...
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CfP2: Reading visual devices in early books – Early Modern Graphic Literacies
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
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 · 03/04/2024
(Photo by Antti Ijäs!)
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Early Modern Graphic Literacies @emodgral.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
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 · 09/01/2024
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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