Carin Ruff
@carinr.bsky.social
Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
@emilyelle.bsky.social Let us know how it was!
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
@emilyelle.bsky.social Let us know how it was!
Deckle would also be a great cat name.
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Deckle would also be a great cat name.
I would also love to find a regular Taize service nearby.
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I would also love to find a regular Taize service nearby.
Neither did I until just a few weeks ago when I did some desperate googling to see if anybody did Rite I as their later service. And lo! One parish in town does.
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Neither did I until just a few weeks ago when I did some desperate googling to see if anybody did Rite I as their later service. And lo! One parish in town does.
Bonus Cathedral bells on the way home. 🔔🔔🔔
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Bonus Cathedral bells on the way home. 🔔🔔🔔
St. Gall 553 preserves an early-9th-c. copy of Jonas's Life of Columbanus, mercifully not in Luxeuil minuscule, which didn't outlive the early 8th c. www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
St. Gall 553 preserves an early-9th-c. copy of Jonas's Life of Columbanus, mercifully not in Luxeuil minuscule, which didn't outlive the early 8th c. www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...
I'm not sure they were so uncomfortable. I'm a big fan of 17-18c stays—not at all like Victorian corsets. Plus all those "undress" options!
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I'm not sure they were so uncomfortable. I'm a big fan of 17-18c stays—not at all like Victorian corsets. Plus all those "undress" options!
I moved 7 times between 2006 and 2011 (2 of those local moves, at least) and I've only recently got over having moving nightmares. Usually about having left a huge stash of books in some previous university town.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I moved 7 times between 2006 and 2011 (2 of those local moves, at least) and I've only recently got over having moving nightmares. Usually about having left a huge stash of books in some previous university town.
Reposted by Carin Ruff
2/2 Why do the saints attending the Virgin's coronation seem so extremely ill-tempered?
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
2/2 Why do the saints attending the Virgin's coronation seem so extremely ill-tempered?