Morning Medieval Miscellany

I'm composing this entry early because I'll be heading up to visit Montecassino tomorrow: I'll check this entry early in the morning my time so let me know via comment if anyone wants pictures or descriptions of anything.

• Today's miscellany begins with what Lost in Transcription calls "news of the freaking awesome" and Medieval Material Culture articulates a little more clearly as the discovery in northern Poland of the remains of Copernicus.
• StevenTill reminds us of a few Nov. 20th events in medieval history.
• The Cranky Professor has posted several pics and his reflections upon visiting the early medieval church silver at Dumbarton Oaks.
• And send wishes for better health to Dame Eleanor Hull, who is afflicted with a severe cold and may soon be buried in cats and herbal tea-bags.

Detail from MS Arundel 63 f. 120, courtesy of the British Library.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Greetings! I'll be guest-blogging the Morning Medieval Miscellanies for a little while hopefully with help from others. Personal blogs aside, I am working on a blogged presentation of digitized medieval manuscripts.

• Michelle of Heavenfield remembered St. Hild's day on the 18th.
• Magistra et Mater recently posted about the 11th c. Gregorian reformation and why the enforcement that followed appeared at that particular time.
• The Naked Philologist gives a fangirlish "squee!" over J.R.R. Tolkien.
• Neogrammarian on the LiveJournal medievalist community is curious about the Alliterative Revival as expressed in prose and would like recommendations.
• There's a lively discussion on In The Medieval Middle about Karl Steel's student question regarding the two holes in the chapel mound of SGGK.
• On The Heroic Age there is a post detailing 10 postdoctoral fellowships for next year!
  
• In other news, there is a post on early church sites and standing stones, the location of an early medieval Scottish battle at Degsastan, and several people irresponsibly disassembling themselves in marginalia. If you have a second, go encourage Jacob (who finished his written comps) and Aaron (on the completion of the first draft of Guthlac B).
• Things are looking up for medieval studies in terms of the number of students in Michael Drout's classes!

Feel free to comment if I've missed anything that ought to be posted! There is quite a lot of activity amongst medievalists on the internet.

Detail from MS Arundel 11 f. 9, courtesy of the British Library.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

I'm finally coming up for air after about two weeks of breakneck writing, leaving the number of medieval blogposts in my reader in the hundreds ... so I'll just link for a while until I get sick of linking. My apologies in advance to any medievalists out there whose fine posts are skipped by your exhausted Wordhoard host.

• Jonathan Jarrett has a really interesting post on feudalism that is too complicated to describe in a single sentence. Just read it.
• Caught in the Snide has a post on Aelfric and Wordsworth.
• This isn't really medieval, but as I'm a regular guest on Geekerati, I think I should mention that they're putting out a call for writers in various aspects of geek culture.
• Got Medieval has now moved to www.GotMedieval.com ... sort of. It's really just a redirect, but Carl would like us to update links accordingly.
• Speaking of Got Medieval, as part of his Google penance, he's discussing pope names in his usually LLCoolCarl style.
• Heavenfield has posts on St. Bridget of Kildare, the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene, and Osfrith son of Eadwine, whom I've apparently read about a bazillion time in Bede's Ecclesiastical History but have no memory of.
• The Weird Medieval Animal this week is the chimera.
• JJ Cohen has a post about whether "The Prioress's Tale" can bring Jews & Christians together, referring to this Prioress's Tale Chamber Opera. Eileen Joy is none too happy in the comments.
• Medieval Material Culture has posts on a book about the big Gough Map in the Bodleian Library, and archeologists who think they might know the location of the palace of the first king of Scotland ... who, as it turns out, is nothing like Forrest Whitaker.
• News for Medievalists had a big update, including a bit more on the Gough Map, as well as a bit on Islamic medieval science.
• Dr. Virago sticks up for the churches in Norwich.
• Steven Till has a bunch of links to medieval history resources online.
• The Swain points out that the 2008 Medieval Congress program is up.
• The Punch Die laments that Richard the Lionhearted has, along with Winston Churchill and Charles Dickens, fallen into legend.
• A Commonplace Book wonders how sharp the edges were on tournament swords.