Carin Ruff

The next in HMML's great series of talks.

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Just try it: 'Primitus pantorum procerum praetorumque pio potissimum paternoque praesertim privilegio panagerieum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgantes'
(British Library, Cotton ms Domitian A IX)

I'm only just a bit annoyed they can't make one as light and svelte as my 20-teens 12" MacBook.

My elderly mom needs a new MacBook and I've been waiting for this for her. Looks promising, to the extent she can cope with any system change.

I also just stumbled across a term for a whole area of study adjacent to mine that I'd never heard of from within medieval studies. More to read! (I'll post about that in a bit, after I get my teaching ducks in a row and have a chance to figure out what I want to ask the People of the Skies.)

later in the course, of course, when we hit the Industrial Revolution.

then devote the 2nd class to paper east and west, printing in Asia, alternative theories of Gutenberg's typecasting methods, and block books. We'll see how that goes this time. I've found the students are VERY interested in paper and the paper section keeps growing. We'll have more on paper +

After several iterations of this course, I've decided what works best is to introduce the late medieval book trade, book design, and readerships, how movable metal type works, and the press and its limitations in the 15th c. in the first week, and +

A slide with title at left on a blue background: The Printed Book, Week 1: Gutenberg and his medieval context, and at right, a picture of me pointing up happily at the sign on the front of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, ca. 2013.

Revising my Gutenberg lecture for the first meeting of my printing history course tomorrow. This was a fun trip—too long ago!

Now I've looked up the term and am intrigued! Please share what you find.

Good night from Dolly and Sloth.

Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

Sean Rowe, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, is speaking here at the EPN Conference to rectors & deans.

He starts by saying the Episcopal Church will, “in a stunning turn of events,” have a strategy. ⚓️

The reward will be worth it.

This is fantastic! Sharing it with my students this week.

DC peeps, I recommend the Dream City Podcast.

In case there's room for it in the required plan, I found by far the most important thing about our inquirers' class at Trinity Cleveland was the relationships formed during it. Another argument for a longer class.

It snowed here here today. 🙁 We are promised temps in the 70s by the weekend.

Devoutly hoping this is it for this year.

@ihr.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @justincolson.bsky.social @adamchapman.bsky.social

Feeling more optimistic about having good energy for the first meeting of the course I'm *teaching* on Thursday.

Thanks to everyone for the well wishes.

Feeling significantly better today. I wish I knew what these episodes were, but am disinclined to investigate after so many decades. Anyway, I was alert through the 1st mtg of the course I'm taking on the intellectual foundations of the American Revolution.

Pleasingly meta to find some printed binding waste with a whole page of definitions of the word bind/binding. In a medical work by Leonart Fuchs, printed at Lyons in 1550 & bequeathed to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1591 by Thomas Lorkyn, Regius Professor of Physic. N*.13.49(G).

The St Albans Processional: Music and Scribal Culture at Twelfth Century St Albans - 12/06/2026 19:30:00 Join us as a unique twelfth-century processional from the St Albans scriptorium is brought to life.

Very much looking forward to what will be a lovely way to tie up my time working so closely on such a fantastic MS. There will also be live chant performed by James Preston and Andrew Carwood, including a gorgeous farsed Christmas Epistle.

www.stalbanscathedral.org/Event/the-st...

For St. Chad's Day last year, we looked at the St. Chad Gospels and (downthread) features of Insular Half-uncial. The excellent Manuscripts of Lichfield Cathedral site is worth exploring: lichfield.ou.edu

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 O 48(b), Liber Fergus Fergusiorum. The 15th century manuscript is of Connacht provenance and from the names of places mentioned, written in Co. Roscommon.

I wish activity trackers counted minutes of extroversion.

I can't figure out when I've had enough human contact to catch anything. Just as likely this is one of those things that just periodically flares up inside me.