Morning Medieval Miscellany

Again, it's not morning, but as long as I'm on the road (I'll be home soon) I take my internet access where I can get it. Today's Miscellany is apparently the Scholarly Conference Edition, since so many are writing about conferences present and future. Start with Carnivalesque XLI over at Xoom. No point in going elsewhere until you've been there.

• Jonathan Jarrett has his final report from Leeds.
• Miglior Acque reports on the New Chaucer Society, as do JJ Cohen, Medieval Woman, and Dr. Virago, and Stephanie Trigg has two posts on teh conference. I've never liked that name, "The New Chaucer Society." I know that the "New" is placed where it is to differentiate it from the old "Chaucer Society," but it makes it sound like a society devoted to a new Chaucer 2.0.
• Cohen also has what appears to be a slideshow of images of castles in Wales, but I couldn't get it to run right where I'm staying, so I'm linking on faith. If Cohen has posted a video of drowning kittens or a catalog of his collection of styrofoam peanuts, my apologies for the link.
• There are some CfPs up over at The Heroic Age.
• Miss Medieval has an admiring post on Julian of Norwich.
• Steven Till explains his own choices for the Middle Ages in seven words, and the Medieval Historic Fiction Novel of the Week is Parke Godwin's Sherwood.
• Lingwe links to Tom Shippey's Top 10 Tolkien books.
• Mary Kate Hurley asks us, "When did you find yourself employing your knowledge of the medieval in an unexpected time or place?"
• Heroic Dreams asks if anyone knows of any plastic swords that might look good on film. I dunno -- when we did Camelot in my high school, we used real, blunted swords (no, I'm not kidding). They also have a post on knights, and send us to their website devoted to the topic, Knight-Medieval.com.
• Jeff Sypeck reviews Lloyd Alexander's Gypsy Rizka.

Finally, Larry Swain discusses the alleged lack of history in the K'zoo 2009 CfP. My own session in '09 got cancelled*, so I'm going to have to look at the sessions to see if there's anything I want to present anywhere. Honestly, at the moment, I'm tempted to give it a pass -- but my work ethic will probably get the better of me eventually.

*The same thing happened in '08 -- perhaps I'm a session jinx!