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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Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#multimodality #digitalhumanities
#multimodality #digitalhumanities
Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data
Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data
jobs.helsinki.fi
January 21, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#multimodality #digitalhumanities
#multimodality #digitalhumanities
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Millaista on työskennellä roolipelisuunnittelijana tutkimushankkeessa? Pelisuunnittelija, kirjailija Kristel Nyberg oli mukana Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla -hankkeessa @titaraproject.bsky.social. Hän kertoo Kaivolla-blogissa pöytäroolipelin luomisesta ja yhteistyöstä tutkijoiden kanssa:
Millaista on roolipelisuunnittelijan työ osana tutkimushanketta? - Koneen Säätiö
Kristel Nyberg kertoo, miten Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla -hankkeen pöytäroolipeli syntyy ja millaista on yhteistyö tutkijoiden kanssa.
koneensaatio.fi
January 7, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Millaista on työskennellä roolipelisuunnittelijana tutkimushankkeessa? Pelisuunnittelija, kirjailija Kristel Nyberg oli mukana Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla -hankkeessa @titaraproject.bsky.social. Hän kertoo Kaivolla-blogissa pöytäroolipelin luomisesta ja yhteistyöstä tutkijoiden kanssa:
Research pipeline update time
January 5, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Research pipeline update time
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Mitä roolipelisuunnittelija tekee? Miten yhdistetään tieteellinen tutkimus ja roolipeli? Mitä roolipelillä edes tarkoitetaan?
Näihin ja muihin kysymyksiin vastaa Kristelin kirjoitus @koneensaatio.fi Kaivolla-blogissa!
#titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation
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Näihin ja muihin kysymyksiin vastaa Kristelin kirjoitus @koneensaatio.fi Kaivolla-blogissa!
#titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation
koneensaatio.fi/tarinat-ja-j...
Millaista on roolipelisuunnittelijan työ osana tutkimushanketta? - Koneen Säätiö
Kristel Nyberg kertoo, miten Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla -hankkeen pöytäroolipeli syntyy ja millaista on yhteistyö tutkijoiden kanssa.
koneensaatio.fi
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Mitä roolipelisuunnittelija tekee? Miten yhdistetään tieteellinen tutkimus ja roolipeli? Mitä roolipelillä edes tarkoitetaan?
Näihin ja muihin kysymyksiin vastaa Kristelin kirjoitus @koneensaatio.fi Kaivolla-blogissa!
#titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation
koneensaatio.fi/tarinat-ja-j...
Näihin ja muihin kysymyksiin vastaa Kristelin kirjoitus @koneensaatio.fi Kaivolla-blogissa!
#titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation
koneensaatio.fi/tarinat-ja-j...
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Sara's article on alchemical metaphors is now officially published!
The special issue "Imagining Alchemy: Visual and Figurative Representations in Pre-Modern Sciences" is now out in BJHS Themes! I'm so chuffed to have an article in this issue - it's been out in early view for a while, but it's now official!
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
BJHS Themes: Volume 10 - | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - BJHS Themes - Volume 10 -
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December 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Sara's article on alchemical metaphors is now officially published!
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The special issue Between Science and Magic (Mirator 2/2025) edited by Ida, Sara and Karolina Kouvola is out now! The special issue continues with the themes of our symposium last year as Carla Suhr and Antti Ijäs explore the intermingling of science and magic.
journal.fi/mirator/issu...
journal.fi/mirator/issu...
Mirator Vol 25 Nro 2 (2025): Between Science and Magic
journal.fi
December 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The special issue Between Science and Magic (Mirator 2/2025) edited by Ida, Sara and Karolina Kouvola is out now! The special issue continues with the themes of our symposium last year as Carla Suhr and Antti Ijäs explore the intermingling of science and magic.
journal.fi/mirator/issu...
journal.fi/mirator/issu...
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Idan, Saran ja Karolina Kouvolan toimittama erikoisnumero Between Science and Magic (Mirator 2/2025) on ilmestynyt! Viime vuotisesta symposiumista kummunneessa erikoisnumerossa Carla Suhr ja Antti Ijäs pohtivat tieteen ja taikuuden yhteenkietoutumista. journal.fi/mirator/issu...
Mirator Vol 25 Nro 2 (2025): Between Science and Magic
journal.fi
December 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Idan, Saran ja Karolina Kouvolan toimittama erikoisnumero Between Science and Magic (Mirator 2/2025) on ilmestynyt! Viime vuotisesta symposiumista kummunneessa erikoisnumerossa Carla Suhr ja Antti Ijäs pohtivat tieteen ja taikuuden yhteenkietoutumista. journal.fi/mirator/issu...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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!
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Renaissance Studies: Vol 0, No 0
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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...