Katherine Ibbett
@eparpillee.bsky.social
Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
I got an email from Audible and am thrilled to share the news that George Eliot has released a brand new title
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I got an email from Audible and am thrilled to share the news that George Eliot has released a brand new title
Ok I'm back on my bear business. Basically in inviting the bear to this Oxford Ministry for the Future event on the Arctic @vbivar.bsky.social made me a very happy woman. Here is Bjorn arriving in the Levine lobby at Trinity. I love him terribly.
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Ok I'm back on my bear business. Basically in inviting the bear to this Oxford Ministry for the Future event on the Arctic @vbivar.bsky.social made me a very happy woman. Here is Bjorn arriving in the Levine lobby at Trinity. I love him terribly.
It eats handouts
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It eats handouts
Best day ever: I met a polar bear
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Best day ever: I met a polar bear
Caged Pie. Wayne Thiebaud, 1961, currently at the Courtauld. Made me tear up a bit, weirdly.
October 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Caged Pie. Wayne Thiebaud, 1961, currently at the Courtauld. Made me tear up a bit, weirdly.
Worried the cat is developing opposable thumbs, which would be end times for the rest of us
October 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Worried the cat is developing opposable thumbs, which would be end times for the rest of us
Wigmore Hall programme has a Tim Horton, pianist! Poetic reflections on donuts 🍩 🍁 🍩
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Wigmore Hall programme has a Tim Horton, pianist! Poetic reflections on donuts 🍩 🍁 🍩
for #NoKings (no Dukes of York, either), here are some 17thc French frogs (who will definitely go in my book + maybe even on the cover of it) - taken from some very kingly designs for a tapestry of a political ecology in praise of Louis XIV, by Charles Le Brun, but let's go ahead and croak otherwise
October 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
for #NoKings (no Dukes of York, either), here are some 17thc French frogs (who will definitely go in my book + maybe even on the cover of it) - taken from some very kingly designs for a tapestry of a political ecology in praise of Louis XIV, by Charles Le Brun, but let's go ahead and croak otherwise
Autumn is so lovely in Oxford, with golden leaves gently falling on soggy mattresses.
October 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Autumn is so lovely in Oxford, with golden leaves gently falling on soggy mattresses.
I finally made it to our swanky new humanities building. I did indeed run into many people from other departments, as promised! Gossip abounding AND a roof terrace, the dream.
October 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I finally made it to our swanky new humanities building. I did indeed run into many people from other departments, as promised! Gossip abounding AND a roof terrace, the dream.
Not allowed on the counter, OK. But Jesuitical cats are able to find a loophole in the logic.
October 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Not allowed on the counter, OK. But Jesuitical cats are able to find a loophole in the logic.
Please pity poor Bertie, who was sleeping in a fleecy hammock but rudely awakened by the crashing of ice preparing for the maîtresse’s Friday martini. He has a hard life.
October 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Please pity poor Bertie, who was sleeping in a fleecy hammock but rudely awakened by the crashing of ice preparing for the maîtresse’s Friday martini. He has a hard life.
In the garden at Ham House: a Pierre Corneille pear. Que de maux et de pleurs nous coûteront nos poires!
October 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
In the garden at Ham House: a Pierre Corneille pear. Que de maux et de pleurs nous coûteront nos poires!
Round where I grew up there’s a ferry that still crosses the river and today I took it there and back (with some 17thc joys in between): good for the soul
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Round where I grew up there’s a ferry that still crosses the river and today I took it there and back (with some 17thc joys in between): good for the soul
It has been a good writing day. Bertie hunted a whole new draft chapter for me to edit.
October 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It has been a good writing day. Bertie hunted a whole new draft chapter for me to edit.
Narcissus is not allowed on the table, as it happens
September 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Narcissus is not allowed on the table, as it happens
The macaronic college charter of Trinity Oxford describing the trees “in le backside dicti nuper Collegii”
September 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The macaronic college charter of Trinity Oxford describing the trees “in le backside dicti nuper Collegii”
I guess I’m first for dinner
September 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I guess I’m first for dinner
With a truly extraordinary lecture from Craig, a reading that I think makes the room happy to be scholars even in these sad times. A great boost.
September 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
With a truly extraordinary lecture from Craig, a reading that I think makes the room happy to be scholars even in these sad times. A great boost.
I’m at a conference in honour of @craigclunas.bsky.social and learning about teapots and rivers and fans and birds, and also about how much everyone admires CC. All the things I love! (The Mandarin conversations are alas beyond my two terms of evening classes.)
September 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I’m at a conference in honour of @craigclunas.bsky.social and learning about teapots and rivers and fans and birds, and also about how much everyone admires CC. All the things I love! (The Mandarin conversations are alas beyond my two terms of evening classes.)
From the same maison d’édition my neighbour just gave me this
September 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
From the same maison d’édition my neighbour just gave me this
it's the first day back home and have done an all ALL THE SORTING day, work and household tasks as banally comforting as running a load of laundry, but nothing as good as this, the brushing of the Bertie chair. Anyone want to make a cat from this?
September 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
it's the first day back home and have done an all ALL THE SORTING day, work and household tasks as banally comforting as running a load of laundry, but nothing as good as this, the brushing of the Bertie chair. Anyone want to make a cat from this?
Headed home from Madrid thinking of this little sitting-on-a-box detail seen in a Dutch painting in the wonderful Thyssen-Bornemisza, and eager to settle back into my own domestic interior
September 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Headed home from Madrid thinking of this little sitting-on-a-box detail seen in a Dutch painting in the wonderful Thyssen-Bornemisza, and eager to settle back into my own domestic interior
Made lots of new friends at the Valladolid workshop - but only one of them ran up the Frenchman’s leg
September 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Made lots of new friends at the Valladolid workshop - but only one of them ran up the Frenchman’s leg
Valladolid: peacock wants pollo
September 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Valladolid: peacock wants pollo