Rutger K. 🟥
@anotheraspirin.bsky.social
Friendly, non-threatening rewriter of medieval history. Operates out of the Low Countries. Purveyor of Fine Puns.
This is a problem.
September 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
This is a problem.
In other news, I missed Tom Hardy Kat Day but it's never too late to celebrate so ... let's!
It's friggin' wholesome content is what it is.
pictures-of-cats.org/tom-hardy-fo...
It's friggin' wholesome content is what it is.
pictures-of-cats.org/tom-hardy-fo...
September 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In other news, I missed Tom Hardy Kat Day but it's never too late to celebrate so ... let's!
It's friggin' wholesome content is what it is.
pictures-of-cats.org/tom-hardy-fo...
It's friggin' wholesome content is what it is.
pictures-of-cats.org/tom-hardy-fo...
"The lion who is afraid of the naked man".
Illustration with Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'Amour in Paris Bnf fra. 25566 (c. 1300)
Illustration with Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'Amour in Paris Bnf fra. 25566 (c. 1300)
September 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"The lion who is afraid of the naked man".
Illustration with Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'Amour in Paris Bnf fra. 25566 (c. 1300)
Illustration with Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'Amour in Paris Bnf fra. 25566 (c. 1300)
The enjoyment is aided, in part, by the fact that my paper is done already, as evidenced by this final slide (which I think summarizes my point nicely).
September 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The enjoyment is aided, in part, by the fact that my paper is done already, as evidenced by this final slide (which I think summarizes my point nicely).
Really enjoying this conference on Canonical Life in Western Europe in the Long Tenth Century, taking place in Leuven as we speak. Good to know that the last word on canons has not yet been said!
September 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Really enjoying this conference on Canonical Life in Western Europe in the Long Tenth Century, taking place in Leuven as we speak. Good to know that the last word on canons has not yet been said!
The LLT (another database) gives a maximum of 21 occurrences (again, for both variants) in the 13th century for a total of 99 across the entire series - entitled (get this!) the Corpus Christianorum... this also includes martyrs, whose 'christian bodies' end up littering the Colosseum and whatnot.
September 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The LLT (another database) gives a maximum of 21 occurrences (again, for both variants) in the 13th century for a total of 99 across the entire series - entitled (get this!) the Corpus Christianorum... this also includes martyrs, whose 'christian bodies' end up littering the Colosseum and whatnot.
From a quick database query: "corpus christianum" (and derivatives like 'christianorum') occurs 18 times in the MGH (bunch of medieval source books). This includes stuff about actual Christian bodies (i.e. burial stuff).
September 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
From a quick database query: "corpus christianum" (and derivatives like 'christianorum') occurs 18 times in the MGH (bunch of medieval source books). This includes stuff about actual Christian bodies (i.e. burial stuff).
Anywhoozle, watch this space for updates on an article about what the Icelanders did with the below scene of Saint Nicholas being all righteous and misogynistic (OR IS HE!?!?!?!)
This fresco's from the St. Nicholas Church in Peć, painted in 1673(ish) by Radul, by the way.
This fresco's from the St. Nicholas Church in Peć, painted in 1673(ish) by Radul, by the way.
August 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Anywhoozle, watch this space for updates on an article about what the Icelanders did with the below scene of Saint Nicholas being all righteous and misogynistic (OR IS HE!?!?!?!)
This fresco's from the St. Nicholas Church in Peć, painted in 1673(ish) by Radul, by the way.
This fresco's from the St. Nicholas Church in Peć, painted in 1673(ish) by Radul, by the way.
Currently watching Geek Girl: come for the realistic depiction of #ActuallyAutistic people, stay for the amazing soundtrack. And also the positive autism thing which is really nice.
August 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Currently watching Geek Girl: come for the realistic depiction of #ActuallyAutistic people, stay for the amazing soundtrack. And also the positive autism thing which is really nice.
There were, apparently happier times...
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-0...
(courtesy of @zachweinersmith.bsky.social)
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-0...
(courtesy of @zachweinersmith.bsky.social)
August 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There were, apparently happier times...
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-0...
(courtesy of @zachweinersmith.bsky.social)
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-0...
(courtesy of @zachweinersmith.bsky.social)
[slaps roof of Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Fribourg (CH)]
"This bad boy can fit so many Nicholases in it!"
"This bad boy can fit so many Nicholases in it!"
August 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
[slaps roof of Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Fribourg (CH)]
"This bad boy can fit so many Nicholases in it!"
"This bad boy can fit so many Nicholases in it!"
I mean if DC can have a year zero I'm sure Marvel can, too, somehow.
August 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I mean if DC can have a year zero I'm sure Marvel can, too, somehow.
HULK USE PHD TO FIGURE OUT YEAR ZERO
August 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
HULK USE PHD TO FIGURE OUT YEAR ZERO
I was! Now I'm slowly drip-feeding my timeline with some of the highlights... 'tis a good place to visit :-)
August 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I was! Now I'm slowly drip-feeding my timeline with some of the highlights... 'tis a good place to visit :-)
Vase, reputed to be the one used by Saint Martin to collect the blood of the martyred Theban Legion - according to legend, it was brought to him by an angel for that very purpose.
In reality it's a Roman sardonyx vessel from around the year 0, set in a gold cloissoné mount from around the year 500.
In reality it's a Roman sardonyx vessel from around the year 0, set in a gold cloissoné mount from around the year 500.
August 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Vase, reputed to be the one used by Saint Martin to collect the blood of the martyred Theban Legion - according to legend, it was brought to him by an angel for that very purpose.
In reality it's a Roman sardonyx vessel from around the year 0, set in a gold cloissoné mount from around the year 500.
In reality it's a Roman sardonyx vessel from around the year 0, set in a gold cloissoné mount from around the year 500.
Whoops I did a medievalism.
At Hohenzollern Castle, a monument to everything that was stupid and romantic and awesome and shitty in the 19th century.
At Hohenzollern Castle, a monument to everything that was stupid and romantic and awesome and shitty in the 19th century.
August 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Whoops I did a medievalism.
At Hohenzollern Castle, a monument to everything that was stupid and romantic and awesome and shitty in the 19th century.
At Hohenzollern Castle, a monument to everything that was stupid and romantic and awesome and shitty in the 19th century.
Copper pendant from (what is now) Switzerland, roughly 5000 years old.
The museum says it's "double spirals" or "in the shape of glasses 👓" but... 🤷♂️
The museum says it's "double spirals" or "in the shape of glasses 👓" but... 🤷♂️
August 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Copper pendant from (what is now) Switzerland, roughly 5000 years old.
The museum says it's "double spirals" or "in the shape of glasses 👓" but... 🤷♂️
The museum says it's "double spirals" or "in the shape of glasses 👓" but... 🤷♂️
7th century Reliquary of Theuderic, a masterpiece of silversmithing and cloissoné work. Good stuff.
At Saint-Maurice d'Agaune.
At Saint-Maurice d'Agaune.
August 14, 2025 at 5:44 AM
7th century Reliquary of Theuderic, a masterpiece of silversmithing and cloissoné work. Good stuff.
At Saint-Maurice d'Agaune.
At Saint-Maurice d'Agaune.
The entire image cycle is something to behold. Hyper-catholic Art Noveau with just a smidgeon of Swiss national(ist) pride. It's an experience.
August 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The entire image cycle is something to behold. Hyper-catholic Art Noveau with just a smidgeon of Swiss national(ist) pride. It's an experience.
Amazing early 20c window in Fribourg cathedral. The Epiphany scene is fine already, but Herod in Hell (being gnawed on by Death) and the superfriends Satan and Chtulu are something else entirely.
Très weird.
Très weird.
August 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Amazing early 20c window in Fribourg cathedral. The Epiphany scene is fine already, but Herod in Hell (being gnawed on by Death) and the superfriends Satan and Chtulu are something else entirely.
Très weird.
Très weird.
Seen here in an early 20th century stained glass window in St Nicholas Cathedral, Fribourg. "Igne me examinasti" is from a hymn for the saint but I feel "ignem meum examina" is more appropriate given the story about the saint complaining to the executioner that his fire wasn't hot enough.
August 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Seen here in an early 20th century stained glass window in St Nicholas Cathedral, Fribourg. "Igne me examinasti" is from a hymn for the saint but I feel "ignem meum examina" is more appropriate given the story about the saint complaining to the executioner that his fire wasn't hot enough.
The so-called 'Ewer of Charlemagne', made sometime* in the early ninth century and then donated to Saint-Maurice-d'Agaune (where it resides to this day).
* it's unclear _where_ due to the awesomeness of its design.
* it's unclear _where_ due to the awesomeness of its design.
August 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The so-called 'Ewer of Charlemagne', made sometime* in the early ninth century and then donated to Saint-Maurice-d'Agaune (where it resides to this day).
* it's unclear _where_ due to the awesomeness of its design.
* it's unclear _where_ due to the awesomeness of its design.
At the bottom of fol. 21v of Bern ms 635 (a Legenda Aurea) we find this little doodle of a beetle or a crayfish. At least that's what I think it is, because someone has helpfully written (I think) 'carabus' in it.
Don't tell me if it says something else. Let me live in peace with my little carabus.
Don't tell me if it says something else. Let me live in peace with my little carabus.
August 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
At the bottom of fol. 21v of Bern ms 635 (a Legenda Aurea) we find this little doodle of a beetle or a crayfish. At least that's what I think it is, because someone has helpfully written (I think) 'carabus' in it.
Don't tell me if it says something else. Let me live in peace with my little carabus.
Don't tell me if it says something else. Let me live in peace with my little carabus.