- Over at Medieval Silkwork, Isis has posted her abstract for her thesis on frills.
- Vaulting and Vellum discusses a modern occurance of medieval superstition involving twins.
- Katrin from A Stitch in Time is seeking advice on the cover of her book.
- Apparently Henry VIII had, among other things, an "unfeasibly large armoured codpiece." h/t Scribal Terror.
- Per Omnia Saecula discusses the new book Arabs and Normans in Sicily and South of Italy.
- News for Medievalists has an update.
- Linda McCabe reviews Mother of the Believers.
- Medieval Material Culture Blog points us to exhibits at Ecouen and Cluny.
- Lingwe discusses teaching Tolkien and JRRT's translation of a French translation of the Book of Jonah.
- Julie K. Rose tells us what rogation days are.
- Deogolwulf has a quote from Chesterton including this gem: "Medieval people never worried about being medieval; and modern people do worry horribly about being modern."
- Japes for Owre Tymes discusses the Roman de la Crock.
- Over at In the Middle, Eileen Joy continues the discussion of a K'zoo panel, and JJ Cohen discusses facts about Sir Gawain learned at the knee of Larry Benson.
- Hammered Out Bits discusses the implausibility (or at least inadvisability) of quenching a sword in a slave, or for that matter anyone else.
- Got Medieval has marginalia about lions rather than monkeys.
- A Viking ship has been found in a Swedish lake. h/t The Cranky Professor.
- A Corner of Tenth Century Europe discusses community organizing* in Kent, and the Case of the Disappearing Abbot.
- Archaeology in Europe points us to an effort to make Wearmouth-Jarrow (the Venerable Bede's old stomping grounds) a World Heritage Site.
*Insert Barack Obama joke here. I'm too lazy to think one up.
Thank you for the link.
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