Morning Medieval Miscellany

Google Reader seems to be working right for me again, so here are a few posts clogging the pipes:

• There's more Juliana over at the Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry Project.
• Archaeology in Europe has had lots of new posts since the last Miscellany.
• The Heroic Age has had a bunch of new posts too.
• News for Medievalists too!
• I've posted about this before, but if regular Wordhoarder Will McLean missed it, it's worth repeating: UCLA has a nice catalogue of thousands of digitized medieval manuscripts.
• Got Medieval welcomes us to June, and has a post on how Reynard the Fox is like the early Bugs Bunny, not the later, wimpier one (you know, when the hippies took over and Tom & Jerry had to be friends -- the Dark Age of cartoons).
• Hammered Out Bits has all sorts of raw data I can't even pretend to understand, but if you're interested in Viking Age smelting, you might understand it.
• Stephanie Trigg posts some of her work on stained glass windows.
• JJ Cohen muses on how Untimely Matter in the time of Shakespeare might be used to study medieval Jewish-Christian relations. Gearwor responds.
• The Medieval Garden Enclosed discusses the scythe, and its use in not-so-grim reaping. It also contains this sentence: "I took a scything course a few years ago [...]" I'm amazed both because I didn't know scythe could be used as a verb, and because I was not aware one could take a course in performing this verb.
• Medieval Material Culture has a links page of women in armor. Why do I suspect that will result in some weird porn hits?
• Speaking of which, Medieval Silkwork has some pictures of pretty girls embroidering.
• A Stitch in Time discusses St. Elisabeth's Cloak and has a beautiful image of the fabric.
• Muhlberger has a quote about Joan of Arc and military prudence.
• The Naked Philologist points us to a medieval manuscript joke in a comic strip.
• Papa's Secret Voodoo Boot has an apology and a retraction for something said in a comment thread about Chaucer -- which, when you think about it, is perhaps ironic since Chaucer himself is famously known for retracting.
• Steven Till asks for readers' top five fantasy recommendations to new readers of the genre, and the Medieval History Term of the Week is basinet.
• Michael Drout tells us, among other things, that there will be a new edition of Beowulf and the Critics.

By the time you're reading this, I'll probably be at the Ren Faire. Perhaps I'll have some images and comments for you next time.