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Enlightenment Rocks with Stephanie O'Rourke sorourke25.bsky.social @EileenTisdall now available youtube.com/watch?v=pEzzCv… Opening shot is a Brocken Spectre I witnessed outside Killin near Ben Lawes during a cloud inversion. Figure at centre of rainbow is my shadow projected onto a cloud bank

@LEUSavage @DevinFitzger Dr Kathryn M Rudy Acquisition and copyright permissions are the black holes of academic life - sucking in money/time/emotional stress scrabbling for grants. Mine cost £4,500 in 2005 for Snapshots of Bloomsbury. What would that be in 2022! The Chronicle of Higher Education HigherEducationTimes

Fri 8 Oct: The Digital Medieval Manuscript: Expert Meeting. Contributions include ummmm on the golden age of digitization; Cornelis van Lit on automated analysis of ms corpora; @IVanrenswoude + @MarikenTeeuwen on the virtual manuscript library. Registration req'd tickettailor.com/events/noorg/5…

Tempted to go to Valencia 27-29 Oct? Dr Emily Guerry will speak about the lost inscriptions in the wall paintings of the upper chapel in the Sainte-Chapelle, at La interdisciplinariedad en el estudio de la imagen conference

Gourd for God! Jack o' lantern jacket. Pumpkin spiced parchment. Someone's been sniffing acanthus this #Halloween (Madrid, FLG inv. 15656)

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Behind Jerome: rock-face face-rocks #creepycliffs And a Botticellian virgin in a hortus conclusus with penetrating flower stems #parchmentslits (Madrid, Lazaro, Inv.15454)

Great day reading manuscripts Biblioteca Lázaro Madrid, thanks to Juan Antonio Yeves, bibliotecario. Three cheers for manuscript librarians!

Gold background of this altarpiece (Prado) is "tiled," revealing that gold leaf came in sheets about 4" square. The materials constrain and define the surface. Other examples?

New acquisition at the Prado (related to Hugo vd Goes): mother reads a codex, while youngest daughter Catherine reads an unfurling parchment roll with a quincunx of wounds.

Listen to "Enlightenment Rocks, Episode 1". ⚓ anchor.fm/kathryn-rudy/e…

Listen to the sound of 600-million-year-old CO2 being released. Conversation with Stephanie O'Rourke sorourke25.bsky.social James Ray & Tony Prave anchor.fm/kathryn-rudy/e…

New podcast about the past, present, and future of the Scottish landscape, featuring haunting original music by Elisabeth Flett host Stephanie O'Rourke sorourke25.bsky.social anchor.fm/kathryn-rudy/e…

When you're frozen solid, don't kick your clogs! Warm up with a nice bowl of blood. (Abbeville BM 16)

The fabulous Scottish musician Essa Flett. I first heard her perform at the Auchtermuchty festival when she was a teenager.

This, made by my Swansea colleague Maria Pretzler, sums up just how many jobs we do. We earn our pension and our precarious colleagues deserve security #OneOfUsAllOfUs Swansea University UCU #UCUstrike

Spent a great time at the Bodleian Libraries new exhibition visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/sensatio…, talking touch, smell, taste, hear, seeing with curators @OldFortunatus and Dr Kathryn M Rudy. Thanks to Lanisha for the invite. Write-up to follow...

There's a new exhibition at Bodleian Libraries in Oxford called Sensational Books about the sensory experience of books. Touch, smell, sound etc. We speak to co-curator Kate Rudy in our latest podcast & learn if a book made from processed cheese has a smell. castbox.fm/app/castbox/pl…