Morning Medieval Miscellany

Wake this morning feeling depressed/euphoric/apathetic? Here are a few things to cheer you up/remind you of reality/spark your interest:

• Medieval Ecclesiastical Art has two posts on medieval vestments.
• Japes for Owre Tymes confronts Mary Worth.
• Magistra et Mater considers "grand narratives" for medieval archaeologists.
• The Medieval Historical Fiction Novel of the Week is Morgan Llywelyn's The Wind from Hastings.
• Medieval Material Culture Blog has an update with lots of upcoming exhibits.
• There aren't many chances to learn Old Irish, but Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick will have summer classes in July '09.
• Here's a political message from a marginal monkey. Some day, Got Medieval is going to run out of monkeys and have to start recycling them; that will be a sad day for me.

Also, someone sent a link to Barry Windeatt's obituary of Derek Brewer, but it was kind of buried in the comment section.