Carin Ruff

She likes Bear but she's mildly annoyed. Of course, she hadn't paid attention to the octopus in weeks.

My mom's dog Bear is visiting and he has taken a shine to Dolly's squeaky octopus. 🐙

Welcome, Maggie! I love the senior lady beagles (and the people who adopt them).

Chronica Majora – Lincoln Castle Picture of The Chronica Majora on display at Lincoln Castle

We're delighted to loan Matthew Paris's (d.1259) 'Chronica Majora' to Lincoln Castle exhibition

See the Siege of Lincoln in 1217 displayed along with Magna Carta - visit these two stars while you can!
www.lincolncastle.com/events/event...

CCCC MS 16ii, ff. 55v-56r
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An eagle brings Cuthbert and his companion a fish which they share with the eagle.

BL Yates Thompson 26; Bede, Prose Life of Cuthbert; 12th century; England, N. (Durham); f.28v
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Like watching paint dry

BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Carmina Regia: Address of the City of Prato to Robert of Anjou; c. 1335 CE; f.10v @blmedieval.bsky.social

🧵. I essentially gave this lecture yesterday, though not on this specific basis. I am, however, going to show the students next week my early-16c BoH leaf with bounding lines added by hand to make it look right, so yeah.

I love this series and I am also happy to have this info to file away for my own novel, which may touch on 19th- and 21st-century churchyard burials. I would have thought I'd thought of all the issues for which I'd need expert consultation but that would not have occurred to me.

Update on this: it turns out this is available to borrow at the Internet Archive. Yay! archive.org/details/fift...

Sometimes great wisdom and an annoying voice are united in the same person and you realize you should read their work instead of listening to a podcast interview with them. Just saying (and vagueskeeting).

Turns out each episode is a movie long, so there's plenty to watch!

Good girl, Evie!

Partway through and really enjoying this. I do wish there existed a playback setting where you could selectively slow down the speech of one interlocutor, though, because I miss about half what Dwarkesh says. He is charming and a good listener, though.

The Medieval Book for OLLI, Fall 2025 click here for the Syllabus Tuesdays, 1:45-3:15 pm, September 30 through November 11, in person at OLLI at AU’s Spring Valley building Contact: carinr@gmail.com OLLI posts recordings of class…

You might find the slides and links I posted for my class last semester helpful: ruffnotes.org/medievalbook/

I would be very curious to see polling like this on the state and city level.

My M.Phil exams at Oxford were more like comps. I did Medieval Latin, Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin, Old English Philology, and Old English Prose. I did plenty of OE verse in my 2 years, but I don't think I did an exam paper in that. Exam papers written over several weeks and then a viva on all at once.

I lost track of the beginning of this thread, but we are skeeting our comps subjects? At Toronto we didn't have comps, but a Major Field orally examined, on a reading list individually set to encompass the subject of the diss. Mine was something like Latin Grammar in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Worried possum is worried.

I didn't, but COOL! I haven't taken a close look at all, just noted the MS for my quick Saints+MSS posting.

Given current events in the Middle East, let's prepare for the weekend with the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
#Weekend 😀
BL Add MS 11695; f.102v
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Let the music commence: it's the weekend!
#Weekend
BL Cotton MS Tiberius C VI, f.30v @blmedieval.bsky.social

Useful intel! Thank you!

Good to see @blmedieval.bsky.social is now over here!

And post 2, with neumed Visigothic goodness: bsky.app/profile/cari... [2/2]

This day last year for Julian of Toledo's feast, we looked at some wacky-cool manuscripts. Post 1, with (downthread) runes and beasties: bsky.app/profile/cari... [1/2]

Let me know what you discover, because my paper-obsessed students NEED TO KNOW!

Good choice!

That was smart of you. I have comprehensively blocked ActBlue on all platforms now after their texts almost made me hate my own party during the last election.

I suppose political spam to Gvoice would at least prevent me having to remember to log in periodically + send something to save the number.

For some reason he texted my Google Voice number.

Narthexians, tell me the story of how your church choir got much better after being pretty terrible. ⚓

(Asking not as a musician or choir member but as a parishioner with ears to hear.)