Morning Medieval Miscellany

I'm back from my Cub Scout trip, covered bug bites and sun burn. A good time was had by all. Here are a few other things guaranteed to give a good time. Today's Miscellany seems to have a bunch of strange medieval animals.

• Prof. de Breeze wonders if "maybe I'll make it into Scott Nokes's Morning Medieval Miscellany" for a post on Ælfric's De Temporibus Anni and how it seduced at least one young innocent into the world of medievalism. How could I deny someone like that?
• Steve Muhlberger has an account of Old World and New World medievalisms meeting in a crusader pageant.
• Larry Swain is putting together a list of the required great books of medieval lit.
• Stephen Till has three new posts, including one on the diffusion of the stirrup through Europe, one on Bernard Cornwell, author of a great deal of historical fiction (whom I like very much), and the medieval term of the week, castle-guard.
• Random Dafydd has a post on the Bobbio Orosius, which is a medieval manuscript, not a little-known Rat Packer.
• Moyen Age celebrates Midsummer's Eve with a poem from John Lydgate.
• Modern Medieval has the second installment in its blog forum, on witchcraft in the Middle Ages and today.
• Karl Steel gets in on the weird medieval animal action with the zybo.
• Speaking of weird medieval animals, my brother-in-law sent me Joseph Wu's Origami page, which includes a fantasy gaming gallery.
• Also on the weird medieval animal front, several people sent me links about a "unicorn deer" in Italy. I kept forgetting to include it until today.
• Stephanie Trigg gives us a post on long garter ties, and also offers the text of "The Originall and Continuance of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, as it was Spoken before the King’s Majestie on Saint George’s Day Last, anno domn. 1616. By W.Fennor."
• The Heroic Age has several new CfPs and the like.
• Jennifer Lynn Jordan has a post on the Stone of Destiny as a medieval forgery.

I can't shake the feeling I've forgotten something in the above. I'll just have to count on my fellow Wordhoarders to reveal it.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

It's been so long since I did a Morning Medieval Miscellany that I'm losing track of stuff. I've got to start doing the MMM even when I've only got two or three things to mention. Anyway, this Miscellany has a bunch of new blogs, spin-off pages, etc., so prepare to update your blogrolls!

• A Corner of Tenth Century Europe points us to the new blog, "What Would Wulfstan Do?," with the all-time greatest ULR, blogolupi.
• Over at Got Medieval dogs and cats are living together in a state of sin.
• Haligweorc is setting up a new blog that will focus more on medieval stuff, Homilaria.
• Heavenfield has posts on Henegst & Horsa, and Cadwaladr and Cynan, and also points us to Lindisfarne's Long Century.
• The Weird Medieval Animal for this week is the parandrus.
• Heroic Dreams discusses the future Elfstones of Shannara movie.
• Modern Medieval and In the Middle both review Ashley Crownover's Wealtheow -- both positive reviews, but neither as positive as mine.
• News for Medievalists had a big update with new posts! I'm so far behind, I still haven't read them all.
• Mary Kate Hurley has a post on how blogging has made her a more humane academic ... suggesting that she was inhumane before! Well, not really, but I like to imagine she was committing the academic equivalent of war crimes, such as intentionally misconjugating verbs, and spreading false information that Augustine of Canterbury and Augustine of Hippo were actually the same person. Oh, the inhumanity!

Feh ... I don't have time to finish this Miscellany. Hope that gives everyone their medieval fix for the day.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Here's a Miscellany for your Wednesday morning. Since I'm writing this Tuesday night, and Leeds is ongoing, the Miscellany will be about 6 hours old when you can finally read it.

• Age of Perfection compares Leeds and Kalamazoo.
• JJ Cohen and Eileen Joy are live blogging Leeds. Ooops, here's another Cohen post that came up while I wrote this Miscellany.
• Archaeology in Europe has an article on the search for the tomb of Suleiman I.
• The Bitter Scroll muses about depression, Tolkien, and the Anglo-Saxon worldview.
• Another Damned Medievalist is blogging a monasticism conference.
• A Commonplace Book has a recreation of the Pas de la Belle Pelerine to be held at Pennsic, and a post on shield construction.
• A Corner of Tenth Century Europe has a post on fiscal land, and a post on some recent readings.
• The Cranky Professor has a post (and image) about a statue of Virgin and Child made around 980. The statue was made then, not the post.
• Got Medieval has a knight confronting a snail.
• Henchminion responds to the snail image, and the weird similarity between Richard Scarry and De Nominibus Utensilium.
• Heavenfield discusses the symbolism of the number 300 in medieval battles, and shows us where to win free tickets to Brendan and the Secret of Kells.
• The Heroic Age has over a dozen new posts.
• Heroic Dreams discusses an upcoming book on castles, and the new Wheel of Time book.
• Humanities Researcher has a CfP on blogging and medieval studies.
• Lingwe discusses Tolkien Studies 6 and a planned Lewis/Tolkien collaboration that never took place.
• The Lost Fort has some beautiful castle images.
• Lost in Transcription has some Pearl-Poet Society CfPs for K'zoo 2010.
• The Medieval Garden Enclosed has a post on grain harvesting.
• Medieval Material Culture Blog posts some new exhibits.
• Medievalism announces that the Studies in Medievalism conference deadline is extended, and discusses the Post-Historical Middle Ages.
• Modern Medieval discusses the construction of the "Dark Ages" and "Renaissance."
• News for Medievalists has four new stories.
• Per Omnia Saecula watches In the Name of the King so you don't have to.
• Steven Till discusses the Battle of Barnet and interviews Victor Verney.
• Getting Medieval discusses some medieval skeletons.
• Gearwor discusses the Beowulf on the Beach kerfluffle, and has Beowulf, fitt 13.
• Medieval Research with Joyce discusses books on medieval manuscripts.

Hammered Out Bits has two posts on a glass bead making furnace. It's a cross-post from the Dark Ages Re-Creation Company blog. I knew of the existence of DARC, but not the blog, so I'm updating my RSS feed accordingly.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Morning is almost over, so in some time zones this will be an Early Afternoon Medieval Miscellany -- though I suppose all the Wordhoarders in Europe, Africa (which has only a few), Asia and Down Under have always had to take the word "morning" with a grain of salt.

• Archaeology in Europe has 17(!) new posts since the last Miscellany.
• News for Medievalists has three als0.
• Chaucer applies Boethius in Iran.
• The Heroic Age has various new CfPs and other announcements.
• Heroic Dreams talks about Hidden Legend mead.
• Magistra et Mater takes to task our modern ideologies about medieval women.
• Moyen Age has a midsummer quote from The Land Book of Troy. I've never read TLBoT, and given that it's 500+ pages online, I never will unless I get a paper copy.
• The Medieval History Term of the Week is banneret.
• A Stitch in Time reports on the Lamboy-Fest in Hanau.
• Studies of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages tells us that Primeval is on TV, and will have a medieval knight.
• Food History discusses food in Narnia.
• Someone over at Yahoo Answers posted this question: "Who divided medieval english literature into canonical and non-canonical classifications?" Anyone want to go over there and give it a shot? I'm not sure how to answer that.

In non-medieval news, one of my students has posted a picture of my bidet. Yes, it's genuine.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

As regular Wordhoarders know, I've been trying to find an alliterative way to do my little link round-ups without stealing thunder from Jennifer Lynn Jordan's Weird Medieval Animal Monday. I give you my new, semi-regular feature, "Morning Medieval Miscellany!"

The idea here is to have all those things that I had no time to post much about, or just had nothing to add. Though today it's a little late, I'll generally try to post it early in the day, so it can be your first stop that takes you to most of the places you want to be. It'll be semi-regular; if there are only one or two links, I'll hold off a few days until more build up. My hope is that this will free up some of my linking duties, giving me more time to write more original content without cutting into my usual scholarly writing/editing activities.

Think of it as your morning mini-Carnivalesque.

• Jonathon Jarret has a review of the Zemeckis Beowulf movie.
• Heavenfield's Person of the Week is Marie de France. If you're interested in reading some of her lais, Judith Shoaf has some online translations. For the newbie, I'd recommend starting with "Bisclavret" or "Yonec," though "Lanval" and "Laustic" are also popular. By definition, lais are short, so they aren't too taxing to read on a computer screen.
• Christopher Roman has his first post over at Modern Medieval: A discussion of the Pearl poet and Evan Almighty. Let's welcome him to the community by all going and giving it a read, or even a comment if you've got something to add.
• Navit has a post on Weland the Smith ... including a partially-annotated bibliography with comments on much of the important scholarship on Weland. If you want to do a paper on Weland the Smith in some literary work, Navit has already done half your work for you.
• The Weird Medieval Animal today is the manticore ... one of the few such animals I could have named in middle school (from playing too much D&D, probably).
• If you've ever wondered what it would be like to take a class from Michael Drout, read this post. As for the statement, "We in medieval studies often make a fuss about how intellectually studly we are," doesn't go without saying?

Morning Medieval Miscellany

I know, I know ... I promised to leave these MMMs to Karma and Rivkah until my new computer arrives, but I'm on Spring Break and can't help myself!

• Weird News has the Top 10 Inventions of the Middle Ages. I'd have put the printing press at number 1 if it were me, and as long as you're going to have concepts like "quarantine" on there, why not "universities" growing out of the monastic movements? h/t Ninalog
• Archaeology in Europe has an update that is mostly ancient and classical, but has a bit of medievalia in there too.
• If you plan to dress as a 10th-century scribe for Halloween, Jonathan Jarrett asks, "What does a tenth-centure scribe look like?"
• Got Medieval has templars and monkeys. Hooray!
• The Heroic Age has a round-up of medieval news headlines.
• The Swain also has another installment of "Medieval Literature I Didn't Know" over at the Ruminate.
• Heroic Dreams has a post on the new History Channel series, Warriors, including a YouTube playlist.
• JJ Cohen takes Drout to task, with lots of comment discussion below.
• Drout, for his part, is discussing Beowulf, Rev. Walter Skeat, and ornithology in a post about the possible significance of Beowulf's name.
• Medieval Material Culture Blog has several new posts.
• Alaric Hall has posted all sorts of materials for beginning students of Old Norse/Icelandic, including videos! h/t Old Norse News
• Owlfish discusses a show called Heston's Medieval Feast. After reading the post and the description on Channel4, I'm starving!
• Podictionary reminds us that the first use of "vacation" in English is in the Wife of Bath's Prologue.

Ah, the nostalgia of doing a Morning Medieval Miscellany. I really miss it. Oh, where, oh where is my new office computer?!

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Things have been crazy around the Nokes household of late; we're opening a second location for our store. Between entreprenuership and scholarship, free time has been limited. Hopefully we'll open the new location Tuesday, so maybe by the end of the week I'll be blogging more substantial stuff again.

But in the absence of my own substance, here's your Morning Medieval Miscellany:

• I discovered Miglior Acque, a blog by a medieval lit prof. It's been around for years but somehow escaped my notice. Notice escaped no more, as I'm now subscribing to it!
• Scribal Terror has a post on medieval proctology. Seriously.
• Medieval Material Culture has links to articles about a medieval cemetary, and the grave of a Lombard (not Carol, though) buried with his horse.
• Mearcstapa plugs Maps and Monsters in Medieval England.
• Jonathan Jarrett grapples with Patrick Wormald and economic legal history.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Muhahaha! Now for a second time, I'm taking over the Morning Medieval Miscellany! I'm out of control!

• Steven Till has a discussion going of the "five foundational books of medieval history."
• Via Cinerati, Geekerati has a BlogTalkRadio discussion of Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne (book) and Dragon Age: Origins (video game).
• Heroic Dreams has images, video, and discussion of Will Kalif's new sword.
• NinaLog points us to a medieval names archive. If anyone cares, whenever I'm called upon to have a medieval name (on a computer game, or SCA, or whatever), I generally use "Wulfstan" because a.) It's a cool name, and b.) I really like the Wulfstan who wrote the Sermo Lupi ad Anglos. Given the pun on his name in the title, I'm guessing he thought it's a cool name, too.
• Old Norse News has a list of medieval papers scheduled for the Society for Advancement of Scandinavian Studies meeting.

Spring Break is ending now, so I'll leave the Miscellanies for Karma and Rivkah until my new computer gets here ... it just takes too long on this old computer (this post has taken about an hour!) I leave you with the trailer for Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage. h/t News for Medievalists.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

I've got about a bazillion things to do before the end of the semester, several of which depend on receiving other people's e-mails. So, in anticipation of having it all dumped on me at once, here's a rare Sunday edition of the Morning Medieval Miscellany, just so I can ignore such things for the next few days.

• Decorabilia responds to my previous post on the medieval/modern mix in Brit Lit surveys.
• Heavenfield's Person of the Week is St. Magnus of Orkney, who was executed by a cook. The post does not mention the tools of execution, but I like to think it was a poorly-prepared meal.
• Medieval Material Culture has an update with several new posts of newspaper articles, as does News for Medievalists.
• Quid Plura has a post on pilgrimage.
• Derek Olsen has a post On Early Medieval Catechetical Narratives.
• Michael Drout tells us that the Paris Psalter is ready on Anglo-Saxon Aloud.
• The Medieval Term of the Week is hoardings ... but not the same meaning as that in the title of this blog. Of course, it would be cool to imagine that it was the same meaning, because then "wordhoard" would mean something like "Words expressed to enable medievalists to fire on men attacking the base of the culture." Yeah, that would be cool.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

After yesterday's truncated Miscellany, here are a few things that were left out:

• Getting Medieval has a post on the perils of drinking mead while writing.
• Steven Till has Today in Medieval History and a post about Forsaken Kingdom: City of Prophecy.
• The Swain has some musings on Boethius over at The Ruminate.
• Over at The Heroic Age he has an update with all sorts of medieval announcements.
• Quid Plura discusses Anna Julia Cooper as a medievalist.
• Podictionary talks about the medieval origins of the word park.
• Per Omnia Saecula has the long-awaited review of Outlander, positively reviews the book Twilight of Avalon, and promises a review of The Last Legion.
• News for Medievalists has about a half-dozen new posts.
• Medieval Material Culture Blog points us to an exhibit on magic and superstition in the Middle Ages. Unfortunately for me, it's in France.
• Lingwe discusses the new Tolkien Studies.
• JJ Cohen has an account of a failed Jewish comedian from the 12th century. Apparently, the locals didn't find him funny, and Vaudeville wouldn't be around for another seven centuries.
• Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog hath a post on how he has been so swyved by the economy that he's had to take on other jobs.
• Apparently, Rob Cohen is working on a film called Medieval, described as "The Magnificent Seven in the Middle Ages." The Cranky Professor is skeptical.
• A Corner of Tenth Century Medieval Europe announces the upcoming "Cultural Icons of Medieval Scotland" public lecture and conference (July 22-23 at Aberdeen), and describes some medieval coins for sale. And, oh, just as I was writing this Miscellany, he added a reaction to Magistra et Mater's post on adelphopoiesis and so-called "gay monks."
• Over at Cliopatra, Jonathan Jarrett writes about interdisciplinarity in academic medievalism.
• Archaeology in Europe has an update on with over a dozen new articles.
• About.com has a report on a project on the English Charlemagne romances, and one on Henry IV. I just realized today that Melissa Snell's blog somehow fell out of my RSS reader -- but now I've rectified that.
• After an inmate died from the heat while in an outdoor cage, Donna Leone Hamm, director of the local nonprofit Middle Ground Prison Reform called the use of outdoor cages "medieval."

OK, that's it for now. All caught up!

Morning Medieval Miscellany

I'm pulling in the homestretch now on this week (in which every day feels like it runs into extra innings), but I can spare about a half-hour to get a few things into the Miscellany:

• I'm big into including other manuscript cultures in what we call "medieval," and the Cranky Professor has a link to some new Mayan ruins discovered in the Yucatan.
• Another Damned Medievalist tells us, "You might be a Medievalist if..." Dang, I wish I'd written that post.
• Cronaca tells us about Dirty Jobs, Medieval Style.
• Geoffrey Chaucer hath a post about Blazinge Fellow.
• Heavenfield's Lost Kingdom of the Month is the Realm of Rheged. You can read more about Rheged at Senchus.
• Lots of new CfPs can be found at the Heroic Age, one at Owlfish, and one at In the Middle.
• Heroic Dreams has an update and embedded video on the new series based on the Sword of Truth.
• The Medieval Club of New York announces a forum entitled "'Variety': a study in pre-modern aesthetic values" on Sept. 11th.
• The Medieval Garden Enclosed discusses the connection between thistles and Charlemagne. Jeff Sypeck, take note!
• Dr. Virago needs suggestions for helping to accommodate a blind student in her medieval survey class. Maybe the medieval disability studies folks can help?
• You can find round-ups of news stories at News for Medievalists and Medieval Material Culture.
• The Swain has a second installment in his "Medieval Literature I Didn't Know" series (now making it a real series!), this one on the Letter to Sigeweard -- and once again, I didn't know it either.
• This isn't really medieval, but Michael Drout has a post about Haldir, plastic dinosaurs, and ... oh, heck, you're just gonna hafta read it for yourself.
• Julie K. Rose reviews Seekers of the Chalice, discusses fairy rings, and has an interview with Jeff Sypeck. I did a video interview of Sypeck long ago for MediEvolution, but my Web Minion never put it up. Later, when I went to post it via YouTube, I realized it went over the 10-minute limit. I suppose I should dust it off and figure out how to chop it into two.
• Lingwe points us to Journey to the Sea, an online magazine devoted to myth, and a debate about whether or not Tolkien's elves have free will.
• The Medieval Historical Fiction Novel of the Week is Sharan Newman's Death Comes As Epiphany: A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery.
• The Lost Fort has images from Caerphilly Castle and Chester.

This may be the last Miscellany before the weekend. If you're at Dragon*Con, come see me at the Tolkien/Lewis Breakfast Roundtable at 10AM Saturday in the Fairlie Room. Since the content will depend on what the fans spring on us, this could go in any direction!

Morning Medieval Miscellany

For your Tuesday morning:

• Medieval Research with Joyce discusses researching illumination for her historical romance.
• Medieval Cookery has posted manuscript images of the Forme of Cury.
• Studies of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages has two CfPs: Why Arthur and SGGK in Popular Culture.
• Anglo-Saxon Aloud is now going to start doing prose.
• A Stitch in Time discusses selling things at (modern) medieval markets.
• Steven Till has several new posts, including one on Hedingham Castle, the lancet (in windows), a discussion of fantasy artist Michael Komarck, an article on a knight's skeleton, and a review of Warrior of God.
• Senchus discusses the possible meanings of a Pictish symbol.
• The Swain talks about his impressions of Hrolf Kraki and makes some medieval connections with Captain Cook.
• Quid Plura commemorates the Battle of Kosovo.
• Podictionary discusses the medieval origins of the words Boston and tennis.
• Per Omnia Saecula reviews The Last Legion.
• News for Medievalists has about a half-dozen new articles, including one on friend of the Wordhoard Stuart Lee. I once had a student listen to Lee's podcasts and say, "You say the same things he does," to which I replied, "No, he says the same things I do!" Seriously, though, do they think Old English is a different language from school to school? Of course we said the same things!
• Muhlberger has a link to images from the Foteviken Open Air Viking Museum, and claims the medieval people would find El Cid the best movie ever.
• Modern Medieval has a link to a medievalist Bizarro comic.
• Medievalism discusses two new books: Renaissance Medievalisms and The Gargoyles of Notre Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity.
• Medieval Material Culture Blog links to an armor exhibit in D.C.
• Lingwe announces the Hobbitonian Anthology of Articles about J.R.R. Tolkien and his Legendarium.
• You can win free swag over at In the Middle, read about Anglo-Saxon apartheid, or read about Mark Sanford as Lancelot.
• Stephanie Trigg has images of Bruno's medieval costume.
• The Heroic Age has an update with nine new posts.
• Got Medieval has medievalist portraits of Michael Jackson, and video game review of Joust, Inferno, and Magna Carta II.
• A Corner of Tenth Century Europe has posts on the Spanish March of Aizo, a charter workshop at Oxford, and wizards in Asturias.
• If you don't want to go to Oxford to read charters, Another Damned Medievalist breaks it down for you.
• A Chaucer bobblehead!
• Since the last Miscellany, Archaeology in Europe has had over two dozen new posts. That's what I get for waiting so long to do another MMM.
• About.com defines the Anglo-Saxons.
• Carmen's Chatter discusses the influence of AElfric on the Rule of St. Benedict.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

The last few Miscellanies have not gone out because of student supplicants begging for mercy. Let's see how far I get today:

• Medieval Living has posts on medieval tiles and medieval kilns.
• The most recent medieval word of the day is fealty. Or fee simple, depending on the blog.
• About.com has news of a potential 10th-century Korean settlement found in Russia. Sorry, I have nothing to add -- I know nothing about the northern Korean kingdoms.
• Drout offers an announcement of his new recorded lecture, The Anglo-Saxon World.
• The Swain needs help compiling a list of important manuscripts and inscriptions from the early medieval period, 400-1100.
• Podictionary has a post on the connections between the word coroner and Robin Hood (sort of).
• News for Medievalists has several new articles, including one on how we almost ended up with King Arthur instead of Henry VIII.
• Old Norse News has a survey about learning Old Norse.
• Medievalism announces the publication of Eminent Chaucerians? Early Women Scholars and the History of Reading Chaucer, edited, ironically enough, by two men.
• Lingwe has a post on Lloyd Alexander.
• DARC has glass drinking vessels.
• Homilaria discusses early medieval monasticism for understanding Western patristics.
• Geoffrey Chaucer hath a new post about Quanje Weste.
• Getting Medieval discusses Jewish marriage and labor customs.
• Soon I'll be abandoning tea and Coke Zero for spellcasting sodas.
• Slouching Towards Extimacy discusses The Once and Future King.
• Fantasy fanatics take medieval make-believe to Bill Schupp park, h/t Steven Till.
• Mony Wylsum Way discusses a point of translation in a Latin chronicle.
• Medieval Club of New York posts their fall events.
• Dante blogging continues.
• You can see Viking silver in York.
• A proto-dragon! h/t Lost in Transcription.
• Medieval Ecclesiastical Art has some beautiful images of medieval pulpits.
• Muhlberger's Early History has a post on Geoffroi de Charny.
• Jonathan Jarrett has a glowing review of The Long Morning of Medieval Europe.
• Medieval Material Culture Blog has several new exhibitions around the world.
• In the Middle has a CfP for "Insular Identities and the Borders of Medieval Britain."
• Speaking of CfPs, The Heroic Age has a bunch too.
• Here's some video from a Viking fair.

Morning ... er, EVENING Medieval Miscellany

I'm getting off to a late start on my Morning Medieval Miscellany. My son fell asleep in my office while reading the Spiderwick Chronicles this morning, so I used the quiet time to produce some writing that requires a good deal more concentration. A bit of the Miscellany is old, having built up when I was in my Chi-Rho-Mas* cyberwilderness.

• Jeff Sypeck gives a positive report on his mini-trebuchet.
• Sypeck also has a "Best-of" round-up from 2007.
• In the Middle has a "Best-of" round-up too, helpful organized by poster.
• Highly Eccentric reports on Roger Bacon's Mega Ray of Death.
• Michelle of Heavenfield tagged me in a meme, which I'm not so much ignoring as responding to very slowly.
• She also gives us this picture of St. Genevieve in a boat filled with giant sausages, flipping people off on the shore.
• I've missed two Weird Medieval Animals during my blogging lacuna, the hydrus and the Cynocephali tribe.
• BBC tells us that medieval diets were healthier. If so, that's a happy coincidence. Without refrigeration, the diets were whatever grew within a reasonable distance. h/t Per Omnia Saecula.

*That's X-mas, with an inside joke for medievalists, who know that X-mas was not a proto-Festivus aggressive secularization of Christmas, but was instead a typical scribal abbreviation of "Christ" in manuscripts, with the Greek Chi-Rho (which I can't figure out how to reproduce in Blogger) truncated down to "X".

Morning Medieval Miscellany

It's still technically morning here, so let me just bump out a handful of these so I don't get too far behind.

• Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry has Juliana 258-318.
• Archaeology in Europe has had 17 new posts since the last Miscellany.
• Another Damned Medievalist has a quick thought on field specialization among medieval scholars.
• A Corner of Tenth Century Europe discusses the links among a few links.
• Got Medieval has posts on musically-inclined pigs, why medieval protologists would have been wealthy, and the supposed millionth word.
• Hammered Out Bits has forging a rush tip.
• Heavenfield reminds us that the Secret of Kells and Merlin will soon be available to American audiences.
• Henchminion has a nasty description of a medieval wound.
• The Heroic Age, issue 12 is out.
• Heroic Dreams discusses Shuri Castle, and an unidentified medieval castle.
• Humanities Researcher discusses stained glass in film.
• JJ Cohen asks readers if they can think of any premodern aerial views. An interesting question -- except for mappa mundi, I can think of none.
• Magistra et Mater discusses the claim that the ritual of adelphopoiesis was a form of medieval monastic same-sex marriage.
• Friday, June 19th will be Folia Fugitiva: The Pursuit of the Illuminated Manuscript Leaf.
• Miglior Acque has images from the Grimani Breviary.
• Muhlberger's Early History discusses the interview of Walter Goffart at Medievalists.net.
• Musings from a Loon has a contest to promote the novel Pope Joan.
• News for Medievalists has ten new posts.
• Ninalog has images from her new books on dragons.

OK, that's it, I've run out of steam. I'll pick up the remainder in the next Miscellany.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Some medievalia for your morning pleasure:

• Here's a new interview with JJ Cohen on his older book Monster Theory. h/t In the Middle
• The Lost Fort has a couple of posts with pictures of castles and buildings.
• The Medieval Club of New York announces a variety of events.
• The Medieval Garden Enclosed has a post on jasmine.
• Modern Medieval announces release of Different Visions, and The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade.
• A viking shield was found in Denmark, h/t Steve Muhlberger.
• The Naked Philologist has a post on chastity belts, and one on the Chanson de Roland.
• Papa's Secret Voodoo Boot is working on translating Psalm 136. Note to my students: See? Translation is hard for everyone.
• News for Medievalists has had 18 new stories since my last Miscellany, including one that suggests why vikings were so grumpy.
• Mary Kate Hurley has a meditation on what the Digital Scriptorium means for the training of future medievalists.
• Old Norse News asks what can be done from the perspective of publishing to promote Old Norse studies.
• The Weird Medieval Foliage of the Week is the peridexion tree.
• Quid Plura discusses medieval risk management theory.
• Dr. Virago sends us to Middle English comics!
• Senchus discusses the significance of a ceremony on the River Dee.
• Slouching Towards Extimacy links to an article about the excavation of a Christian Viking village.
• Steven Till has had about a bazillion posts since my last Miscellany.
• Magistra et Mater has more on Hincmar.
• Miglior Acque defends the Norton Critical Edition of Troilus and Criseyde.
• Am I the only one who didn't know there was such a thing as a regional blacksmithing conference? And if so, is there anyone else dying to go to this kind of thing besides me?

Hey! I got caught up! I guess I'll also do those bits that weren't in blogs beginning A-H:

• Heavenfield discusses the 7th Century as a "long" or transitional century.
• The Heroic Age has a few new CfPs.
• Heroic Dreams recommends some music for medieval writers, and reviews Wizard's First Rule.

Hooray! Google Reader is empty!

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Lately, I've had a lot of link-tastic posts, and not as many original postings. For those of you who fear this might be part of a new format, fear not! I've been researching my memorandum to the President for my White House Fellow application, as well as preparing two keynote addresses for February.

That's not to say that all original posting will be on hold until then. One of the things I'm doing, for example, is listening to all of Matthew Gabriele's podcasts so I can report on them to you. I listen to them on my daily run, so I ought to finish them in the next day or two (unless the weather turns nasty).

Until there, here's your Morning Medieval Miscellany:

• Jeffery Hodges has a meditation upon curiousity that features Bernard of Clairvaux.
• Heavenfield discusses whether St. Augustine (of Canterbury, not the City of God guy) established a church on Ely.
• Heroic Dreams has a post on medieval weapons, as well as one on mysterious halberds. Perhaps a Wordhoarder can help with the Case of the Mysterious Medieval Halberds.
• Speaking of weapons, Musings from a L.O.O.N. has a post with lots of images of armor (you've got to scroll a bit to get to the armor).
• JJ Cohen posts his syllabus for his "Myths of Britain" class, and discusses the role of Wikipedia in scholarly publishing.
• And for the scholars out there (whether they cite Wikipedia or not), The Heroic Age issues a CfP.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

... being a Medieval Miscellany in which I test Dr. Richard Scott Nokes' patience with my definitions of the terms "medieval" and "relevant." (My Christmas list is both medieval and relevant... really!)

• In anticipation of Black Friday, Got Medieval offers a unique shopping experience for the medievalist on your gift list -- fine simian products and magnetized Historic Personals. Avoid the mad mall rush! (And tell my mom. Because she thinks I need more kitchen utensils. And really - I don't. Papa John's Pizza treats us just fine during the last month of the semester, thanks.)
• Royal charters, frontier settlements, and an "I told you so" are on tap at A Corner of Tenth Century Europe.
• In the Middle has a call for papers for Blackwell Compass's first-ever virtual humanities conference, "Breaking Down Barriers."
• News for Medievalists has a review of Henry Hitching's The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English.
• Mary Kate Hurley at Old English in New York wonders if we can think of Old English poetry "without loss."
• Viking Society Publications online, for free - including Dorothea Cokes Memorial Lectures, 110 years' worth of Saga-Book volumes, and facing-page translations of Gunnlaugs saga (ed. Quirk), Heiðreks saga (ed. Tolkien), Völsunga saga (ed. Finch), and Jómsvíkinga saga (ed. Blake). Courtesy Old Norse News.
• Chime in on your favorite Gawain manuscript at Per Omnia Saecula.
• Italian choral script illuminations are on display at the Met as of this week. Courtesy Medieval Material Culture.
• Slouching Towards Extimacy has questions about angels in Chretien de Troyes. Help her out, because all the pizza has gone to her brain, making it, er... greasy. Yeah.
  
• Lost in Transcription has Emo Poems: the Middle English version.

Seriously, this is a bit early for "morning" because I have some papers to finish grading before I can get on the road for the telos of turkey -- but I hope you enjoy these relevant medieval tidbits as much as I'm going to enjoy cranberry sauce (not pizza!) later this week.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Pushing the envelope of what can be considered a "morning" miscellany:

• Wraetlic has headed off early for ISAS, and has a post on poetry entitled "Puffins and Computers and Digital Anglo-Saxon."
• A Stitch in Time has a finished hairnet.
• Medieval Silkwork has an image of a dress in progress.
• Think all this sewing is just for women? Muhlberger's Early History shows that at least some knights did their own sewing.
• Mark Lord has a post on medieval myths about witchcraft, h/t Steven Till.
• Speaking of Steven Till, the medieval history term of the week is Danelaw, the featured historical fiction novel is Housecarl, and casting continues for the "Song of Ice and Fire" series.
• The Swain has a post on "DiGlossia in Anglo-Saxon England."
• Per Omnia Saecula has an image of Dante sand art.
• News for Medievalists has about a half-dozen new articles.
• There's been some discussion on listservs and elsewhere about this: A scholar at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts is declaring the famous (notorious?) Vinland map genuine.
• Modern Medieval had a couple of posts, but kept crashing every time I went to a permalink. Normally it works fine, so I'd suggest heading on over there and seeing their new Tweetboard feature.
• Medievalism has a post on the book Queer Movie Medievalisms.
• A Commonplace Book has a post on cutting pikes in battle.
• The Heroic Age has a CfP for "Thinking Small: Scale and Meaning in Medieval Art."
• DARC and Hammered Out Bits have several new crossposted items on their current projects.
• Just because you don't exist doesn't mean you can't blog, as Crispin Guest demonstrates.
• Eileen Joy has the second installment of her impressions of Leo Bersani.
• Magistra et Mater is blogging the International Medieval Congress in Leeds.
• Medieval Bookworm discusses Twilight of Avalon and Pope Joan.
• Here are a couple of sources that came through my e-mail: A bibliography of manuscripts of medieval Latin chronicles, and the Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi.
• In medievalist architecture, the North Bay Road Castle was damaged in a fire.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

This Miscellany is brought to you courtesy of about 70 ungraded composition papers. I just haven't the heart.

• A Commonplace Book has accounts of two different 15th-century fights. OK, technically not just two fights, but there are two posts, anyway.
• Got Medieval tells of the spiritual dangers of produce, and an Mmm...Marginalia involving monkeys.
• Heavenfield discusses Rhun ap Urien of Rheged, who apparently was important in both the history of Northumbria, and in the annals of "Dudes with Weird Names."
• The Weird Medieval Animal of the Week is the pelican, and after reading about that bird you may understand better why it's on the Louisiana state flag as a tribute to the sacrificial character of the residents.
• I'm submitting a paper to the first session listed here ... when I get around to turning the full paper into an abstract. Am I the only one that finds that harder than going the other direction?
• Heroic Dreams not only has a post about a catapult, but also has two mead-making videos and a list of many more! Anyone who becomes a budding mazer from watching these owes me a finder's fee of one bottle.
• In the Middle has a post about queer movie medievalism.
• Nic D'Alessio has a post building on the comments of this ITM post. I really need to get around to posting about that.
• Medieval Material Culture Blog has an update with exhibits all over the place ... but sadly, none near me.
• Modern Medieval has a job posting for "Medieval Peninsular or Spanish American Colonial Studies." Get get that job, medievalists!
• I'm still trying to figure out if this is or is not a good way to pick up women. I'm thinking it might not be a good method, but at least screens for the right kind of women.
• Dr. Virago has a discussion about what medievalists look like. My silly comments aside, it is obvious: They look like us.
• Despite my dislike for the series (both book and film), here's a link to a post about the latest Harry Potter film.
• The Medieval Historical Fiction Novel of the Week is Ann Baer's Down the Common: A Year in the Life of a Medieval Woman. Steven Till also has a post about today (er, yesterday) in medieval history, and one explaining the Canonical Hours. Though the latter is not strictly medieval, that's the kind of background a good protestant boy like me had to study before understanding what was going on in some medieval texts. Even non-ecclesiastical texts tend to talk about the time of day in terms of the canonical division of hours.
• Magistra et Mater has more about Hincmar. I need to go back and read all those posts carefully ... they seem really interesting, but I've been skimming them due to lack of time. It seems to me they deserve more attention.

Finally, I cannot begin to tell you how happy the very existence of Anglo-Saxon Aloud: Greatest Hits makes me. I only wish Michael Drout were two people so he could issue a reunion album in a few years.