Morning Medieval Miscellany

Ah, mornings, with all their miscellaneous medievaliciousness!

• Language Log has a discussion of "left dislocation" in Old and Modern English. Until reading this, I had no idea this construction was called "left dislocation." Thanks to Kristine Hunt for the link!
• Jonathan Jarrett has Feudal Transformations VIII. Listen, Jonathan, at eight posts, this is not a series, it's a regular feature!
• Here are monkeys and medieval time travel. I vow not to end this sentence with an exclamation, as I have with the last three entries in a row, even though it contains monkeys.
• Believe it or not, this is the second time poo-flinging has come up in an academic context for me today.
• The Heroic Age has its usual collection of CfPs and announcements. If you're a medieval scholar, you really need to pop on over there once a week or so whether I send you or not.
• A film company needs an expert in the use of scimitars. Surely one of you wordhoarders knows someone.
• University of California, Riverside will host "Medievalism, Colonialism, Nationalism: A Symposium" on November 7th & 8th. Um, UC Riverside, can I get some kind of conjunction in that title?
• JJ Cohen has the CFP for "Meeting in the Middle: Probing the Margins of the Medieval World." Cool poster, by the way.
• Nic D'Allesio reviews Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath, a mostly positive review.
• Tolkien Studies V is out.
• Mearcstapa has the abstracts for their Leeds session. This is something I'd like to see become a trend: placing abstracts for sessions (or whole conferences) online. I can't tell you how many times I've looked at a conference program and been unable to tell from a cutesy title whether a paper was about what I was looking for. Thanks, Asa Mittman.
• Speaking of which, over at Slouching Towards Extimacy we have an abstract on the untydras of Beowulf.
• More manuscripts go online, and I become happier.
• Old Norse News has a report from Aarhus Summer School.
• The Weird Medieval Animal of the Week is the viper.
• Shana Worthen has the details on the book technology sessions at K'zoo and Leeds.
• Senchus has a post on good-looking Scottish heads and unsqueamish women.
• Here are two of the Today in Medieval History entries for Sept 22 and 24th.
• The Medieval Historical Fiction Novel of the Week is Joan Wolf's The Edge of Light.
• Kate Laity will be appearing all over Albacon.
• Michael Drout discusses Tolkien in the Wall Street Journal.

I'm running out the door now (Wednesday night -- this is a pre-scheduled post) to give a lecture on Tristan and Isolde (generally as a legend, not a particular version). My theme: Adultery is the best sex, at least as far as medieval lit is concerned. The theme is not to be taken as an ethical position!