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  • Call for papers 2/2025: Between Science and Magic

    2024-11-07

    This special issue stems from the Between Science and Magic Symposium, held 10-11 October 2024 at the University of Turku and jointly organized by the project TiTaRa: Between Science and Magic and the Finnish network of magic studies.

    The special issue (Mirator 2/25) will explore the themes of the symposium and the TiTaRa project: the practices and worldviews of people operating between science and magic, as well as those engaging in practices of witchcraft and esotericism. The TiTaRa project explores questions of identity through English historical linguistics and book history, and the Between Science and Magic symposium’s papers dealt with a variety of materials and languages using methods ranging from folklore studies to archaeology.

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  • Call for Papers 2/2024: Preservation - renewal - change

    2024-04-12

    The Middle Ages was a time of constant change in society, spiritual life, and art. On the other hand, many phenomena were based on the preservation and renewal of ancient culture. Some of them continued and took on new forms in the early modern era. In recent years, medieval studies have seen a number of changes in research methods and perspectives. For example, the recycling of objects and texts for new uses has given them new interpretations while simultaneously preserving them for researchers.

    Mirator is calling for articles for a thematic issue on the theme Preservation - Renewal - Change, to be published in December 2024. Articles can be from any field of research and cover any geographical area. The thematic issue is related to the 2024 Dies Medievales conference, but articles can also be proposed by non-participants.

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  • Ad Fontes: new section of Mirator

    2021-02-19

    Finnish scholars of the Middle Ages are in a relatively fortunate position. Unlike many other countries, almost all documents pertaining to the territory of modern Finland have been edited and made freely available for the use of researchers. The documents can be studied in digital format in the Diplomatarium Fennicum database (http://df.narc.fi/) maintained by the Finnish National Archives.

    Now Mirator and Diplomatarium Fennicum have launched collaboration to complete the database.

     

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  • CFP: Thematic section, Fall 2021 issue: Medievalism in the twenty-first century

    2020-10-15

    The twenty-first century has found its own versatile ways of appropriating the Middle Ages in politics and culture. The medieval past has echoed in George W. Bush’s crusade against terrorism, in the ISIS’s attempts to establish a new caliphate, as well as in the crisis between Ukraine and Russia. The Middle Ages inspire successful popular culture products, either directly as in the Crusader Kings game series, or by providing building blogs of a fantasy world, as in The Witcher franchise. Medieval fairs and the reenactment of history enjoy continuing popularity. Currently, a network of pilgrim routes, modelled according to international examples, is being built in Finland.

    The Fall 2021 issue of the journal Mirator dedicates a thematic section for medievalism in the twenty-first-century culture and politics. We especially hope for articles discussing medievalism in Finland and its neighbouring countries (Scandinavia, the Baltic states, Russia), or international phenomena with a clear connection to the region. The editor of the thematic section is Dr Reima Välimäki.

    The articles should follow Mirator’s general guidelines. Article manuscripts intended for the thematic section should be submitted by 28 February 2021 using the OJS Platform of Mirator. 

     More information:

     Reima Välimäki, reima.valimaki[at]utu.fi

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  • CFP: Dis/ability in the medieval Nordic world

    2019-04-09

    A special issue of Mirator

    Editors: Anna Katharina Heiniger and Christopher Crocker

    The special issue emerges from the interdisciplinary research project Disability before disability (Icel. Fötlun fyrir tíma fötlunar) situated at the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Iceland, initiated in 2017, and supported by the Icelandic Research fund (Icel. Rannsóknasjóður) Grant of Excellence No 173655-05.

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