Morning Medieval Miscellany

I know, I know ... I promised to leave these MMMs to Karma and Rivkah until my new computer arrives, but I'm on Spring Break and can't help myself!

• Weird News has the Top 10 Inventions of the Middle Ages. I'd have put the printing press at number 1 if it were me, and as long as you're going to have concepts like "quarantine" on there, why not "universities" growing out of the monastic movements? h/t Ninalog
• Archaeology in Europe has an update that is mostly ancient and classical, but has a bit of medievalia in there too.
• If you plan to dress as a 10th-century scribe for Halloween, Jonathan Jarrett asks, "What does a tenth-centure scribe look like?"
• Got Medieval has templars and monkeys. Hooray!
• The Heroic Age has a round-up of medieval news headlines.
• The Swain also has another installment of "Medieval Literature I Didn't Know" over at the Ruminate.
• Heroic Dreams has a post on the new History Channel series, Warriors, including a YouTube playlist.
• JJ Cohen takes Drout to task, with lots of comment discussion below.
• Drout, for his part, is discussing Beowulf, Rev. Walter Skeat, and ornithology in a post about the possible significance of Beowulf's name.
• Medieval Material Culture Blog has several new posts.
• Alaric Hall has posted all sorts of materials for beginning students of Old Norse/Icelandic, including videos! h/t Old Norse News
• Owlfish discusses a show called Heston's Medieval Feast. After reading the post and the description on Channel4, I'm starving!
• Podictionary reminds us that the first use of "vacation" in English is in the Wife of Bath's Prologue.

Ah, the nostalgia of doing a Morning Medieval Miscellany. I really miss it. Oh, where, oh where is my new office computer?!