- Wormtalk and Slugspeak has the text of that legendary play, "The Council of Elrond." Faithful enough to its source text for even the nitpickiest purist.
- Kate Laity discusses her essay on the Grendel opera.
- Steven Till has a review of The Traitor's Wife, as well as an interview with the author.
- Medievalism announces a summer graduate seminar on medievalism at Western Michigan.
- In the Middle discusses the new Canterbury Tales on NPR, as does Heavenfield.
- Homilaria has a post on Eusebius.
- Heroic Dreams chronicles trying to buy a real samurai sword.
- Heroic Age has a CfP on Getting Medieval on TV, as well as a set of links to news stories.
- Hammered Out Bits finds that Icelandic smelting furnaces might not have survived those cold winters very well.
- Coinciding with my discussion of the acephalous folks in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Got Medieval has folks with detachable heads!
- Speaking of acephalous folks, Acephalous has an image that anyone who watched MTV in the mid-90s will immediately recognize. Heh heh. Heh heh heh heh.
- Dame Eleanor Hull asks for feedback on Rob Pope's How to Study Chaucer.
- A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe discusses the various types of priests hanging about San Pere.
- Random Dafydd has a post with images of the Codex Manesse, as well as a video, which I've embedded below.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Morning Medieval Miscellany
A happy Thor's Day morning to you!
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In the video, they show various shields. What is the other item next to the shields? It sometimes has the same heraldic design. Are these fancy helmets? They often have little faces beneath them.
ReplyDeleteThankyou for the link, appreciated as ever.
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