Ruth Karras

@rmkarras.bsky.social

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Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕

Table of Contents of the issue. You can find it at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmed20/52/3
Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon
Sticker reads ‘My other car is an Iliad’
6th century Byzantine church St Sofia, with 4th c crypt beneath
A sheet of cookies ready to go in the oven, including gingerbread people, Christmas trees, ornaments, menorahs, dreidels, shofars etc
Towers of Krakow Cathedral against a bright blue sky
An old white lady grinning
A labradoodle by a sign that says ‘Polling Station’ in Irish and English
Cover of the Journal of Medieval History, special issue for 50th anniversary
An Irish passport
Carpet page from St Gall gospel manuscript
TV screen showing England v Netherlands in the women’s Euros
A group of people in assorted Pride gear and a banner ‘votefromabroad.com’. A dog on the left.
A labradoodle peeking over the back of an armchair
A girl with her back to the camera, in a blue sundress printed with the figure of Odin on Sleipnir in white.
A slightly larger crowd, estimated 200, at US Embassy Dublin
Hand painted sign: No Faux-King Way
A group of protesters outside the US embassy Dublin
Text message notifying me that my order is ready at D’Alessandro’s
A young man in a coat looking at some kind of equipment
A screen with a green background and the words ‘2025 Citizenship Ceremony’
National Forensics League award pin from 1975, known as Double Ruby, which played a role in our meet-cute
A Hanukkiah with the first night’s candle lit sits in front of a mirror.
A woman and a man seated on the floor cross legged, and another man lying with his head in the woman’s lap. A malamute strolls randomly through the scene.
A baby doll in an MRI machine
A cybertruck
A small slice of sweet potato pie with whipped cream
A small child in a tie-dye t shirt colouring in a lion
A child’s hands holding a banana swaddled in yards of finger knitting
Four skeins of yarn hanging on a fence. Lurid colors of pink and purple
An image from a Richard Scarry book, with a bear in a Santa suit and his bag of toys
A watercolor in the style of a medieval illumination, of a teacher in chin length dark hair and glasses, holding a book, with students.
🎶94 bottles of wine in the boot, 94 bottles of wine🎶
A Labradoodle, with the Eiffel Tower in the background
A computer screen with a raggedy medieval document on it
Cover of Journal of Medieval History, September 2024
A golden Australian Labradoodle on a leash on a sidewalk
An old white woman in a sweater and a denim jacket, standing in front of a green postbox holding an absentee ballot
Notification from Bluesky that I am User 371989
A hand knitted Dalek
A medieval margin illumination, a dog riding on a rabbit fights a rabbit riding on a snail
A rabbit eating flowers
Sunset across Dublin Bay
A labradoodle waits outside a polling station
A parent's hands holding a newborn
Doodling in the blank space on a manuscript page
Masthead of Journal of Medieval History
Cover of Early Modern Improvisations: Essays on History and Literature in honor of John Watkins, ed. Katherine Scheil and Linda Shenk. Routledge. Cover image: Guercino Erminia and the Shepherds
A not very crowded ballpark
An older and a younger white woman in baseball caps, the younger one in a Pirates jersey
A watercolor which is based on a medieval illumination of a teacher and students, but the teacher is identifiably me.
Screenshot of my portal on mytcd.ie showing notification to supervisor for four completed theses (student names redacted)
Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso saying 'Yes!'
Nine tea lights in a row, the one on the left and the two on the right are lit
A slice of sweet potato pie with cream
A peacock (tail furled) walking around the forecourt of a petrol station
A very tall glass of beer
Lasor dictus Holupko Armenus petit ancillam illiberam Hallam per emptum in Kyow exemptam ab venerabili dno Iohanne Myskowsky preposito Leopolensi ... petens eam rehaberi aut valorem ipsius exolvi.
A cream labradoodle lies moping on the kitchen floor