Dr Kathryn M Rudy
@katerudy1
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Medieval manuscripts & their kiss prints; subversive crafts; pilgrimage, real & imagined. Pleased to be @Leverhulme -2022 on tech approaches to reception.
Scotland
Joined June 2009
RT @AbeBooks: There's a new exhibition at @bodleianlibs in Oxford called Sensational Books about the sensory experience of books. Touch, sm….
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RT @gaskella: Spent a great time at the @bodleianlibs new exhibition talking touch, smell, taste, hear, seeing wit….
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RT @SarahRoseCrook: This, made by my Swansea colleague Maria Pretzler, sums up just how many jobs we do. We earn our pension and our precar….
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The fabulous Scottish musician Essa Flett. I first heard her perform at the Auchtermuchty festival when she was a teenager.
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When you're frozen solid, don't kick your clogs! Warm up with a nice bowl of blood. (Abbeville BM 16)
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New podcast about the past, present, and future of the Scottish landscape, featuring haunting original music by @essaflett host @sorourke15
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Listen to the sound of 600-million-year-old CO2 being released. Conversation with @sorourke15 James Ray & Tony Prave
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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.
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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?
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Great day reading manuscripts @BiblioLazaro Madrid, thanks to Juan Antonio Yeves, bibliotecario. Three cheers for manuscript librarians!
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RT @NHSMillion: We think the NHS should be about people, not profit. Please follow and RT if you do too and help us campaign against priva….
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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)
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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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Tempted to go to Valencia 27-29 Oct? @EmilyGuerry 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
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RT @MaggieHumm1: @LEUSavage @DevinFitzger @katerudy1 Acquisition and copyright permissions are the black holes of academic life - sucking i….
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Fri 8 Oct: The Digital Medieval Manuscript: Expert Meeting. Contributions include @bla222 on the golden age of digitization; @LWCvL on automated analysis of ms corpora; @IVanrenswoude + @MarikenTeeuwen on the virtual manuscript library. Registration req'd.
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Enlightenment Rocks with @sorourke15 @EileenTisdall now available 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
🔴 Live: Enlightenment Rocks. @katerudy1 explores the history, representation of rocks and the people who studied them - an interdisciplinary conversation with philosophers, artists, and historians. Watch now:.
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