Rutger K. 🟥

@anotheraspirin

Friendly, non-threatening rewriter of medieval history. Operates out of the Low Countries. Purveyor of Fine Puns.

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Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· 12d

Yours truly will also be there, incidentally, talking about your pal Saint Nicholas. #Castlefest #Castlefest2026 castlefest.nl/en/line-up/l...

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· 12d

If you find yourself at Castlefest this Sunday, be sure to check out this lecture by @vauser.bsky.social, 'Tooth and Claw, Ice and Amber - Amulets against the Unseen' at the Castlefest Academy, 16h45 - 17h45. #Castlefest #Castlefest2026 castlefest.nl/en/line-up/l...

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· 18d

I mean it's basically Dante.

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· 19d

Coming soon. It's now in the hands of the copy-editors and all those other professionals that make us academics look good.

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· 20d

That magical moment when you put all the chapters together for the first time.

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· Jul 13

Happy to be part of this book. 'tis a good book. Exploring Monarchy in Medieval Europe 1000-1500, by @ewoodacre.bsky.social, Lucinda Dean, Simon Lambe, @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social, and many more. www.routledge.com/Exploring-Mo...

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· Jul 6

We have three excellent (if I say so myself) panels on "Abbatial Identities" at the #IMC2026 today - #s150, #s250 and #s350. The first is already underway, but if you crave more #monastic and #nuntastic goodness, make your way over to Clarendon 101 after lunch! @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· Jul 3

The best supervillain name is and will forever be "The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight". I have spoken.

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· Jul 2

You've been

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· Jun 28

Meanwhile, in Brugge OB ms 402...

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· Jun 18

Went to the _Huis van het Boek_ in Den Haag today, and got treated to this lovely 6c Bible fragment in a lovely Italian (?) Uncial. It might not look like much but it's a lot. rijksmuseummeermanno.nl/collecties/h...

Fragment Latin Bible, 6th century, MMW 10 B 1, coll. Huis van het boek.

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· Jun 11

The joys of medieval research: "Hey there's miracle stories of Saint Nicholas in this manuscript!" The realities of medieval research: [said miracle stories are in the bit circled in red]

Screenshot of the manuscript Vat. urb. lat. 290, fol 10r, which has an Easter table and the Annals of Brauweiler on it, and a very very small marginal gloss at the top, which says 'Hoc annis multis mirabilius ecclesia nostra per beatum Nycolaum illustrata est, multaque super egris signa monstrata sunt"

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· Jun 9

"One of the special objects is a gold ring from the third or fourth century AD... In addition to the gold ring, the archaeologists also came across an... Ottonian fibula... The pin probably dates from the tenth or eleventh century AD" Neat. www.rtvdrenthe.nl/nieuws/18524...

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· Jun 6

I mean

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· May 31

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· May 26

Coming soon to a bookstore or library near you: Exploring Monarchy in Medieval Europe, 1000–1500! 👀 #MedievalSky

Exploring Monarchy in Medieval Europe, 1000–1500
By Elena Woodacre, Lucinda H.S. Dean, Simon Lambe, Patrik Pastrnak

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· May 17

Hey kids! Interested in manuscripts and the future? Well then, feast your eyes on this brilliant new article by Bruno Schalekamp (RU Nijmegen) on “Compiling and Reading the Latin Manuscripts of the Sortes sanctorum". It has transcriptions and everything! #MedievalSky muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

“These Lots Never Deceive”: Compiling and Reading the
Latin Manuscripts of the Sortes sanctorum

Bruno Schalekamp
Radboud University Nijmegen

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· May 14

Vandaag in de quiz: Guillotine of Koffiezetapparaat?

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· May 5

Help, #MedievalSky! There's an opening on our #IMC2026 Panel on Abbatial Identities within and without the Cloister. Do you like abbots/abbesses or another kind of 'monastic leader', and are you having second thoughts about skipping the IMC this year? Let me know and we might have a session for you!

Throughout the middle ages, abbesses and abbots had concerns that went well beyond the walls of their communities. Whether this concerned issues of legal jurisdiction, or more worldly matters such as economic or political questions, monastic leaders invariably found themselves torn between their responsibilities for their monks and their authority in the world outside. The three papers in this panel will explore various such themes and how they affected the (self-)image of abbots and abbesses.

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· May 4

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· May 2

Pictured: Hot People, suffering (the medieval way).

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· Apr 28

I'm afraid that Wiley is still all but forcing authors who want to publish in one of their journals to sign a waiver allowing their work to be used for AI training purposes. This is not OK. There should AT LEAST be an opt-out option. Or, you know, respect for all the work we do for the publisher.

(ii) to exercise any of the rights respecting the Contribution that are set forth in (i) for the following: (a) to create databases or datasets for all purposes and to copy and/or technically modify into a database or dataset; (b) for machine learning, building, developing, and/or training neural networks or other machine learning algorithms and techniques in order to build artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems and models, including, generative AI applications and models (each a “Model”); (c) for the development, training, and/or fine-tuning of each Model, including, as part of an inference and/or retrieval augmented generation process; (d) for prompts, output, and/or other functions specific to generative AI, including, to combine all or parts with other works and/or AI output; (e) for unrestricted text and data mining, and the right to declare a reservation regarding text and data mining; (f) to make available any Model, AI output, or other result of the use cases described under (a)-(e) to the public including to individuals for access, in part or in whole, from a place and at a time of their choice; and/or (g) the creation of commercial products based on the use cases described in (ii)(a)-(e) (hereinafter, “Products”) and the unlimited exploitation of such Products according to (i);

Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin· Apr 11

Q: "But master, didn't the prescribed allotment of bread and wine mean that Benedict's size would increase exponentially?" A: "Certainly my young apprentice. And so it was that he would be referred to as the Chunky Monky"