Jaakko Kalervo Tahkokallio

Personlig profil

Meritförteckning

Jaakko Tahkokallio, PhD and docent in general history, is information specialist in the Special Collections of the National Library of Finland. Besides his curatorial responsibilities, he teaches history of the book and palaeography at the University of Helsinki and supervises graduate and postgraduate work on medieval manuscripts.

Tahkokallio’s research concentrates on high- and late-medieval manuscript culture. His doctoral dissertation was on the manuscript reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain, a topic on which he has thence published several articles. He has also published a short monograph on Geoffrey of Monmouth and his contemporaries William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon as publishers (Anglo-Norman Historical Canon: Publishing and Manuscript Culture, Cambridge 2019).

In his curatorial role, Tahkokallio works closely with the large collection of manuscript fragments of the National Library. He has published several articles on this collection, addressing, e.g., its Franciscan book fragments and the remains of uniform Missals produced for the parish churches of the Diocese of Turku in the fifteenth century.

Other themes of Tahkokallio’s interest are the use of Classical Latin texts in the Middle Ages and long-term developments in the modes of production of manuscript books. In his study of these topics, Tahkokallio has developed and applied quantitative methods in particular.

Previously, Tahkokallio has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at King’s College (2014-2015), London and University of Helsinki (2013-2014). During 2018, he spent a research leave as a researcher in an ERC-funded project Medieval Publishing (PI: Samu Niskanen, University of Helsinki).

Vetenskapsgrenar

615 Historia och arkeologi

Publikationer

14 Artikel
12 Kapitel
3 Bok
1 Antologi eller special utgåva
4 Mer

The Classicization of the Latin Curriculum and “The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century”: A Quantitative Study of the Codicological Evidence

Tahkokallio, J. K., jun 2015, I : Viator. 46, 2, s. 129-153 25 s.

Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

French chroniclers and the credibility of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the King's of Britain, c. 1150-1225

Tahkokallio, J. K., 2015, L'Historia regum Britannie et les "Bruts en Europe": Traductions, adaptations, réappropriations (XIIe-XVIe siècle). Tétrel, H. & Veysseyre, G. (red.). Paris: Classiques garnier, Vol. Vol. 1. s. 53-67 15 s. (Rencontres; vol. 106).

Forskningsoutput: Kapitel i bok/rapport/konferenshandling › Konferensbidrag › Vetenskaplig

Early Manuscript Dissemination

Tahkokallio, J. K., 2021, (!!Accepted/In press) A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth. Henley, G. & Smith, J. B. (red.). Brill , Vol. 2021.

Forskningsoutput: Kapitel i bok/rapport/konferenshandling › Kapitel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

Counting Scribes: Quantifying the Secularization of Medieval Book Production

Tahkokallio, J., 2019, I : Book History. 22, s. 1-42 42 s.

Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

Öppen tillgång

Fil

Pimeä aika: Kymmenen myyttiä keskiajasta

Tahkokallio, J. K., okt 2019, Helsinki: Gaudeamus. 299 s.

Forskningsoutput: Bok/rapport › Bok › Allmänheten

Projekter

2 Aktiv
3 Slutfört

MedPub: Medieval Publishing from c. 1000 to 1500

Niskanen, S., Kujawinski, J., Tahkokallio, J. K. & Leinonen, L.

01/04/2017 → 31/03/2022

Projekt: Forskningsprojekt

Käsikirjoitusarkeologiaa keskiajalta. Luonnontieteitä ja humanistisia menetelmiä yhdistävä hanke keskiaikaisten käsikirjoitusten tutkimiseksi ja tutkimusmetodien kehittämiseksi.

Heikkilä, T., Oinonen, M., Harjula, J., Roos, T., Walta, V., Tahkokallio, J. K., Keskiaho, J. & Vihakara, M.

Jenny ja Antti Wihurin rahasto

30/09/2011 → …

Projekt: Forskningsprojekt

Rauman seudun hengellinen elämä keskiajalta 1600-luvulle

Räsänen, E., Lahtinen, A., Keskiaho, J., Tahkokallio, J. K. & Räsänen, M.

01/09/2010 → 01/01/2015

Projekt: Forskningsprojekt

Kansalliskirjaston fragmenta membranea -kokoelman digitointi- ja tietokantahanke

Heikkilä, T., Keskiaho, J., Tahkokallio, J. K., Hakala, J. E., Savolainen, L., Bremer-Laamanen, M., Vihakara, M. & Ainonen, T.

01/09/2008 → 31/12/2011

Projekt: Forskningsprojekt

Suomen keskiajan kirjallinen kulttuuri

Niskanen, S., Tahkokallio, J. K., Keskiaho, J., Eskola, S., Walta, V., Ainonen, T., Ahokas, L., Randén, S., Roos, T., Risberg, S., Simelius, S., Brunius, J., Björkvall, G., Wolodarski, A., Ommundsen, Å., Gullick, M. & Heikkilä, T.

01/09/2006 → 28/02/2011

Projekt: Forskningsprojekt