Sunday Links

• Carolingian has a post about her experience at the ISAS conference here (I'm jealous as I couldn't go, and now won't get another chance for two more years).
• News for Medievalists has had another big update, with about a dozen new stories, including this discussion of modern medievalism.
• Mary Kate Hurley takes offense at the implication by Christopher Hitchens that "anyone who wants to teach Anglo-Saxon must be slightly nuts and hopelessly lost in the fantasy that Beowulf has something to do with popular culture." Happy birthday, MKH!