Morning Medieval Miscellany

Good morning! Here is a funny YouTube video (don't worry! it is relevant! sort of!) for your viewing pleasure. Pity it wasn't a debauched simian.

• A 3rd c. Gospel and a 14th c. Marco Polo compendium are to be sold soon.
• The National Library of Wales has posted a new digitization of Bede's De Natura Rerum. Speaking of digitzation, there are some Cistercians in Yorkshire that have embarked on an interesting quest.
• Archaeology is prominent in the news this week; a bishop's house was found in Herefordshire, a stone coffin at the site of the Battle of Bosworth, some Celtic coins in a Dutch cornfield, and a silver mount in Durham. Lincolnshire is hosting a display of A/S sword fittings until March 1.
• Anyone interested in Old Irish? Three important grammatical texts have been put online.
• A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe ponders the point of charters.
• In California, a work of reconstruction on three Cistercian Gothic portals has been completed.
• The NEH is holding a summer seminar on Disease In the Middle Ages.
• In the medievalist community itself there have been several new events to which we can respond online. Congratulate Nina at Blog-Her for having finished for the term! In The Medieval Middle congratulates Rob Barrett for his new book! Quod She asks for input on her proposed changes to her class schedule and the place of Chaucer therein. Also, Peter Jeffery and Margot Fassler, sacred music and liturgy specialists, have joined the faculty of Notre Dame U. At Cronaca there are concerns about the new director in charge of Italy's museums. On a more sober note, News for Medievalists posts the obituary of Julian Chrysostomides, scholar and teacher of Byzantine history.
• And the Cloisters has posted about their medieval greenery decorations for the coming season, and promises another post detailing more of the same. A hopeful advent season to all!

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Good morning/evening! Rivkah again. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving! While you were eating and relaxing, medievalists have not flagged in their bloggery; here is a small selection of material from this past weekend:

• Over at A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe, there are two seminary reflections; one regarding the eleventh century reform and the other, change instigated by Islamic conquests. The author also posts about the recent BBC Scotland controversy about their new history program and recommends David Beard's Archaeology in Europe for timely updates. (Yep, it's going on my feed-reader.)
• Muhlberger raises an eyebrow at Pope Innocent III's threats during the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215.
• StevenTill posts a short history of the Anglo-Saxons in Medieval England and also introduces us to the lovely word machicolation.
• Magistra et Mater reflects on the way that Carolingian propaganda contributed to their internal conflicts.
• Quid Plura? brings to our attention the root galangal, which seems to have disappeared from Western cooking.
• In the CFPs, we have Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture from the Heroic Age and Within Reach: European Peripheries in the Middle Ages from Hwaet?
• The iTunes Store is now offering Michael Drout's Bard of the Middle Ages: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Groupies will know him from Anglo-Saxon Aloud (which is on Psalm 122 as of the 26th).
• Bourgeois Nerd calls to our attention a slasher at the British Library.
  
• Looking to get involved? Quod She would like some suggestions about keeping herself interested in the discussions of a survey course in medieval lit. and a user from LJ's Hwaet? would like input on his upcoming paper.

Image from Arundel 162 f.1, 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.