Morning Medieval Miscellany

It's the first day of summer break for my kids, which means doing my own work will be a struggle. Still, I labor on! Here are the medieval offerings of the day:

• The Person of the Week is Queen Cynewise of Mercia -- not super-famous, but famous enough to get mentioned by Bede.
• The Weird Medieval Tribe of the Week is the Nuli, whose feet are on backwards. I wonder if they're good at soccer?
• The Heroic Age has a whole mess o' CfPs.
• Heroic Dreams asks if Conan would drive a Hummer, to which I respond, "Yes, but he wouldn't refer to it by the fruity slang term, 'Hummer.'"
• In the Middle changes their URL, has a couple new posts on disabilities, and has some links about Stonehenge.
• Medieval Material Culture has a few new posts, including two exhibits that, if you're lucky, may be in your area.
• Wil over at Moyen Age reminds us that honey still fights bacteria. The earlier medieval leechbooks also like to use honey ... and as I recall, Michael Drout's research said something about the role of honey in curing a sty in the eye.
• The Naked Philologist concludes "The Hilarious (After)Life of St. Eadmund," and decides to make humorous hagiographies a regular feature.
• Dr. Virago blegs for help in her grad-level class.
• Scribal Terror reminds us that medieval chastity belts never really existed -- I'm feeling lazy, so insert your own ribald comment here.
• Here's a version of Beowulf that's been making the rounds through e-mail. If your students find Raffel or Liuzza or Heaney too challenging, try that translation.
• Speaking of versions of Beowulf, also availabe is Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, a musical. Having listened to a bit of the music, I find it, um, not to my taste*, but you might like it. More here and here.

*Which is my polite way of saying it was nearly unlistenable, but I'm sure there are folks would could endure and even enjoy that type of thing.