Morning Medieval Miscellany

Karma here, with a tardy miscellany (in no particular order) for your skimming pleasure... (I don't know why I bother linking to my blog - I never post anything. Oh, for this last semester of coursework to come to a [happy] end....)

• Mmm... Marginalia! Cats with necklaces, weird_ass_dude_27.jpg, and the Phantom Monkey of the Opera. You should also peek at the Secret Medieval Origins of Batman.

• A Corner of Tenth Century Europe has notes on "Bede's thoughtworld" and a few choice Venerable puns. (And Jonathan Jarrett has joined Cliopatria as well.)

• At In the Middle, Karl Steel is the new patron saint of hand grenades, JJ Cohen muses on teaching Beowulf again, and Eileen Joy writes on Elizabeth Freeman's concept of "temporal drag."

• Time's Boundaries are being negotiated over at New Donestre Social Club.

• News for Medievalists has more news than I can catch up on, and you all probably read it already, but if not, here are some highlights: upcoming medieval conferences, Anglo-Saxon graves containing shields and hundreds of beads, and the grave of Sveti Vlah, aka St. Blaise.

• Similarly, the Heroic Age is rich in offerings, including news of the Blood, Sex, Malory conference and new books in medieval Syriac studies.

• Archaeology in Europe has news of a medieval stone coffin (rumored to be that of Richard III) moving to Bosworth, a medieval find in Northampton, and a "Hobbit skull" study.
  

• Scandinavica is seeking medieval submissions, courtesy of Old Norse News.

• Plans for a Digital Gutenberg Bible are in the news, courtesy of Per Omnia Saecula (which also has Hieronymus Bosch action figures. I want one too.)

• Wormtalk and Slugspeak explains why you -- yes, you -- need to think about sheep DNA more often.

• Godric's Prayer (and tons of psalms) up at Anglo-Saxon Aloud.

• Caught in the Snide has a post on going back to Kalamazoo.

• Chronica Minora links to the first 39 volumes of the Selden Society series, now online for your medieval-English-lawsuit-reading pleasure.

• Dame Eleanor Hull is going to the beach. I know this isn't exactly medieval news, but I'm cold, I'm tired of coursework, and I have forgotten what sunshine looks like, so I just felt a pang of jealousy when reading this.

Well, I am no longer in the mood to sit in front of the monitor after that. I'll catch you guys up on what the rest of the blogroll is up to soon. Now close your eyes and imagine the margaritas...