Early Modern Graphic Literacies

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...

Our conference intern, Anna, wrote about the Reading visuals conference. Read their post here: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...

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.

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📚

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.

Reading visual devices conference started off with a great keynote by Professor Wendy Scase on the visual reading of family genealogies. 📖📚

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....

Our post-doc Aino Liira's article on reader interaction with graphic devices is out now in Renaissance Studies! doi.org/10.1111/rest...

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....

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).

Photo of the cover of the book linked in the post

New book edited by @emodgral.bsky.social project members! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

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.

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-...

@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!

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...

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...

(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.

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