Morning Medieval Miscellany

Let's see how much I can get done before the supplicants come regarding their midterms:

• The medieval word(s) of the day are parchment and vellum.
• October 14th is Norman Conquest day! To celebrate, I plan to shoot an Englishman in the eye.
• I was disappointed that this story about ritual pits discovered in Bulgaria wasn't about anything gruesome.
• The MLA is doing a survey for the 2nd edition of Approaches to Teaching Beowulf.
• Drout talks about his own participation in Clash of the Gods: The Lord of the Rings. Though he's a little bit grumpy about it, it seems to me that the errors were small, and mostly those of emphasis rather than fact. Considering that it could have been a more along the lines of Monster Hunters, etc., I was pleased with it.
• A Stitch in Time is working with gold thread. Beautiful!
• Steven Till writes about A Feast for Crows.
• Karma talks about "angel knights" in Chretien de Troyes.
• The Swain discusses whether or not Kalamazoo has grown looney. If the midterms that come in later today don't wipe me out mentally, I may weigh in.
• News for Medievalists has over a dozen new articles. Don't miss it.
• Here's Kunera, a website with thousands of medieval badges and ampullae. h/t Medieval Silkwork.
• Muhlberger points us to a new translation of the Menagier of Paris, and discusses the prowess of the small of stature.
• Medieval Material Culture Blog has about a dozen new exhibits.
• Magistra et Mater discusses Louis the Pious.
• The Lost Fort has images of medieval Brunswick.
• The folks at In the Middle take offense to Chivas Regal's "Live with Chivalry" ads.
• I want to have a book launch with swordfighting too!
• The Dark Ages Recreation Company tells us how to sign up.
• If you ever want to assault a castle, all you need is a bowling ball and a bicycle wheel.
• The Heroic Age has over a dozen new posts.
• Got Medieval has your October Saints Calendar.
• Dame Eleanor Hull talks about visual memory and manuscript pages. Back in the day when I worked more regularly with manuscripts, I was deeply impressed (and envious) of scholars who could recall with accuracy the most minute details of a leaf. As for me, the other day I forgot the shelfmark of one of the two manuscripts I wrote my dissertation about!
• Archaeology in Europe has a few new medieval items.

Hooray! With only two interruptions, I finished it!

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Now that I'm back from Cub Scout camp, it's time for a Miscellany!

• Ozark Medieval Fortress has a new website.
• Archaeology in Europe has a couple dozen new posts.
• The Bitter Scroll tells us of the etymology of the word empty.
• A Commonplace Book has a poem suggesting one scenario as to how the Staffordshire Hoard got there.
• A Corner of Tenth Century Medieval Europe discusses The Long Morning of Medieval Europe again, a reports on the sessions at the Rosamund McKitterick birthday conference.
• Dante blogging continues with Canto XX.
• Dame Eleanor Hull explains why being a medievalist is like going back to kindergarten.

And that's it for now. I started putting this together four hours ago, and a string of students seeking advice on their midterms has prevented me from looking at more than the above. Enjoy! I hope to catch up later.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

This Wednesday morning:

• Hammered Out Bits has a post on Norse and Anglo-Saxon knives, with a video.
• The Heroic Age has a links page of medieval news this week.
• Magistra et Mater discusses Gregory of Tours and symbolic history. Muhlberger's Early History comments on it.
• Medieval Living discusses difficulty in constructing medieval wheels.
• The medieval word of the day is bailey.
• Point of Know Return discusses Lydgate's Troy Book.
• Podictionary discusses Excalibur (the word).
• Steven Till asks about the "Holy Grail in America" episode on the History Channel.
• About.com has a story about a medieval village discovered in Qatar.
• Here's a brief history of medieval classical music and a review of the game Trine, both h/t LaNiche Music's Twitter feed.

Finally, below is a VOA report on Pennsic, h/t A Commonplace Book. News for Medievalists has that and more video reports as well.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

For your Tuesday morning:

• Steven Till has the top 100 medieval castles.
• Medieval Material Culture Blog announces The Art of Illumination at the Met and Old Master Drawings at Penn State.
• The Medieval Club of New York has an upcoming lecture, "The Jaharis Gospel Lectionary: A Manuscript for Use in Hagia Sophia," and also posts the schedule of coming events.
• News for Medievalists has an article about a BBC radio episode about St. Thomas Aquinas.
• Mearcstapa has their 2010 Leeds submissions.
• The medieval word of the day is liege lord.
• Archaeology in Europe has a dozen new posts.

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 Medieval Miscellany

For your Tuesday:

• Medievalists.net has an interview with Ian Mortimer about his book The Time-Travellers Guide to Medieval England.
• The Medieval Word of the Day is wall-walk.
• Canterbury Cathedral is being repaired with duct tape, which I think is supposed to outrage us, but instead makes me think of the incredible utility of duct tape. h/t Steven Till.
• News for Medievalists has an article on artifacts found at Brechin Cathedral and one on Scottish castles for sale.
• Mearcstapa has a CfP for Leeds 2010, "Exploring the Monstrous."
• DARC has images from Viking Hill at Bonfield.
• The Heroic Age has almost 20 new CfPs and other announcements.
• Medieval Material Culture discusses three exhibits: a Cardiff exhibit on the Welsh view of the Crusades, more on the Nuremberg Mahzor, and a Vienna exhibit on Charles the Bold.
• A Johns Hopkins student killed an intruder with a samurai sword.
• George and the Dragon is, to my knowledge, Patrick Swayze's only medievalist role.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

An extremely truncated Miscellany this morning. I was having serious problems with my RSS Reader, and so I cleared everything out of it -- which means if you posted anything of import over the last week, I've probably not read it. If you want to direct my attention to something you've written, please feel free to drop me an e-mail. So, all we have for now:

• About a dozen new posts on The Heroic Age, with lots of CfPs.
• A 14th-century Hebrew manuscript, the Nuremberg Mahzor, is going on display for the first time.
• Here's a medieval English chicken recipe, for Chykens in Hocchee.

That's it! It would be wonderful if someone were to swing by my house and cook me up some of that chicken.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

It'll take me a long time to clear out this backlog, so let's get started!

• Start with Carnivalesque LIII.
• A Corner of Tenth-Century Medieval Europe has a CfP for "Problems and Possibilities in Early Medieval Diplomatic."
• Dante blogging continues. I know of at least one student who's reading along and wowing his professor with his insight.
• Got Medieval has In Search of Robin Hood, the September feast day calendar, and a knight on a hobby horse.
• Gypsy Scholar has a post on the problem of free will in medieval philosophy.
• Hammered Out Bits has a neat post on the Norse system of measures for exchange.
• Heavenfield muses about religious conversion as a form of translation.
• The Heroic Age has more than a dozen CfPs and such.
• Heroic Dreams has some updates on The Hobbit film.
• DARC has some images from their Norse camp, sans modern stuff.
• In the Middle announces the inaugural issue of The Glossator, and has a CfP on "Romance Temporalities."
• Here's a newish blog: Medieval Living. Update feeds and blogrolls!

Well, there's much more, but Google Reader just started acting up, so more later.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

For this Monday morning:

• The Heptarchy Herald discusses Sherlock Holmes, medievalist.
• Dante blogging continues with Canto X.
• The medieval word of the day is oblate, not to be confused with the medieval history term of the week, which is apse.
• Gearwor presents Beowulf, fitts 28 & 29.
• Hammered Out Bits discusses accessorizing for Vikings.
• Continuing the discussion of gargoyles, Quid Plura presents "A Sonnet from the Boartuguese."
• In the Middle has a CfP on "The Other, the Outsider, and the Outlaw in Medieval Romance," and a report from a really cool screening of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
• Modern Medieval has a CfP on "The Medievalism of Nostalgia."
• Writing a paper on medieval devils? Here's a bibliography on medieval devils -- all the work is done for you!
• Medieval Material Culture Blog points us to an exhibition of gothic art in Magdeburg.
• Muhlberger discusses the big Viking hoard found in Northumbria.
• There'll be a medieval poetry workshop in Lowell, MA on October 17th.
• Beowulf = viral marketing.

That is all. Go forth!

Morning Medieval Miscellany

For this Friday:

• Medieval Research with Joyce has been diligent about the new Medieval Word of the Day feature. The most recent is lawn, which doesn't mean what you think.
• Medieval Cookery has a post on GenCon and Pennsic.
• Gearwor has Beowulf, fits 26 & 27.
• Michael Drout talks about the experience of being a History Channel talking head for the Clash of the Gods series. The one on Lord of the Rings airs Sept. 21st, and the one on Beowulf airs Oct. 5th.
• Steven Till reviews Betsy Tobin's Ice Land.
• Jeff Sypeck's neighborhood has been invaded by gargoyles.
• More casting news for Game of Thrones, h/t PoliScifi.
• News for Medievalists has three new articles: One on a late medieval expedition to Canada, a review of The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations, and one on the search for Leonardo da Vinci's lost "Battle of Anghiari." The later has videos, the first of which calls Leonardo "the greatest mind of the Renaissance." Jerks, always stealing the good late-medieval stuff for the modern era, and dumping all the bad early-modern stuff on the Middle Ages.
• Papa's Secret Voodoo Boot needs help picking a Latin dictionary.
• Linda McCabe has some artist's renderings of what the Ozark medieval fortress will look like. If there's one story of modern medievalism I haven't properly kept up on, it's this one.
• Mony Wylsum Way translates the Earl of Kent's confession.
• Medieval Material Culture Blog has three new links pages: Quintains, sweet bags (which are technically modern), and caparisons, for the well-dressed equine in your life.
• Magistra et Mater has a really excellent post on medieval attitudes in historical novels. If you're writing any medieval (or medieval fantasy) fiction, you really need to read this. I found myself talking aloud back to the post while reading it.
• Speaking of which, Medieval Bookworm reviews Nicole Galland's Crossed.
• Heroic Dreams talks about Renaissance Faire news, and directs us to Renaissance Magazine.
• The Heroic Age has a dozen new CfPs and other announcments.
• The Cranky Professor continues Dante blogging.
• A Commonplace Book has an example of modern manuscript production.
• The Herald has an article on Robert Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid.

Here's a blog with medieval content I'd missed: Spinning Clio. Update your blogrolls & RSS feeds accordingly.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

I've got some sort of weird problem with my RSS feed (wherein some things don't seem to ever delete, or will randomly pop up again later) leading me to be more aggressive in my deletion policies -- and also leading to this MMM being posted in the afternoon. If you've got an important post that's fallen through the cracks here, please feel free to e-mail me a link.

• Archaeology in Europe has over two dozen new articles.
• A Corner of Tenth Century Medieval Europe has a post on the preoccupations of Lothar I, and a review of historical archaeology. By the way, if you ever entitle a book in lower-case letters, know that I'll never read it, unless your name is e.e. cummings. And probably not then. This goes double for you, bell hooks.
• Dante blogging continues with Cantos III, IV, V, and VI.
• Early Medieval Art sends us to Sacred Destinations.
• Carl Pyrdum has been eaten by Reynard the Fox.
• Henchminion discusses the problems of cleaning gambesons.
• The Heroic Age has a links page and a CfP on "Technology, New Media, and Medieval Art History."
• This isn't strictly-speaking medieval, but much of the academic medieval blog-o-net-o-sphere-thingy has been debating use of jargon and clarity in writing. In the Middle gathers the links to the comment threads here.
• Medieval Bookworm reviews The White Queen and Flint.
• Publication of Tolkien's The Book of Jonah has been pushed back to next year.
• The Lost Fort has images from Scharzfels Castle.
• The Medieval Garden Enclosed features the cucubalas.
• In addition to some new linkspages, Medieval Material Culture Blog uses videos to distinguish between à plaisance and à outrance in tournaments.
• Muhlberger reviews Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe.
• Mony Wylsum Way has a post on how Froissart scapegoats Edward II.
• The Naked Philologist offers some morbid 13th-century poetry.
• News for Medievalists has over a dozen new articles.
• Per Omnia Saecula reviews King Arthur.
• Podictionary offers the origins of the word gun.

OK, that's not quite all of them, but I'll catch up in the next one.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Let's see how far I can get before the kids' alarm clocks go off:

• Archaeology in Europe has 19 new posts.
• BabelStone has 72 medieval images. h/t Cliopatria.
• Muhlberger's Early History has video of medieval explosives!
• The Cranky Professor is Dante blogging.
• The Heroic Age has over a dozen new posts, CfPs and the like.
• Getting Medieval has images from Guedelon.
• The Medieval Bookworm reviews The Doomsday Book. Back when we were putting together MediEvolution, one of the segments for our test run was a review of the same book.
• Lingwe discusses Tolkien's View: Windows into his World.
• Mearcstapa posted an abstract for a submission to K'zoo.
• The Medieval Garden Enclosed reminds us that it's time for threshing.
• Mony Wylsum Way plays a writers' game with Arthurian characters.
• Steven Till has seven essential fantasy reads, none of which I've read. As a general rule, I find fantasy novels by authors with the first name "Terry" unreadable.
• Popular Culture has posts on two new books: Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film, and Medieval Film.
• Cloregy has a post on hurricanes in the Medieval Warm Period.
• Prof. Rodney Stark defends the Crusaders.
• Think no one is passionate about medieval literature? Some guy stabbed two people to death in an argument over books on medieval lit.

Here's to hoping I don't get stabbed during my Anglo-Saxon poetry lecture today...

Morning Medieval Miscellany

As you head into your weekend:

• About.com has a medieval terms quiz.*
• The theme for next year's annual Medieval Studies conference is New Directions in Medieval Scandinavian Studies.
• News for Medievalists has an update with four new articles.
• JJ Cohen discusses Karma Lochrie's "Provincializing Medieval Europe: Mandeville's Cosmopolitan Utopia."
• Hammered Out Bits has a post on various kinds of medieval pots.
• A Corner of Tenth Century Medieval Europe has a final report from Leeds, and discusses Cambridge University's 800th anniversary.
• Archaeology in Europe has 19(!) new articles. It'll take me all weekend to read them all.
• Mahdi Karroubi (an ally of Hossein Mousavi) called alleged torture and rapes of protestors in Iranian prisons "medieval torture and corruption."
• My Life After University has a post on the medieval section of Tallinn. I've been there; it's stunningly beautiful. h/t laNiche Music.

*I didn't do too well. Why am I still confused that a Hundred is a unit of land (a division used for taxation purposes, as I recall)? Am I confusing it with something else?

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Today we start classes at Troy. Here are a few items to keep me from despairing:

• Archaeology in Europe has over a dozen new posts.
• Cinerati discusses Terry Goodkind and objectivist philosophy.
• The Heroic Age has seven new posts. Don't miss this set of links.
• In the Middle has a post on authenticity and Guedelon.
• Medieval Bookworm reviews Hugh and Bess.
• Magistra et Mater talks about problems with historical fiction.
• Medieval Material Culture Blog has two new links pages: medieval children & children's clothing, and embroiderers at work.
• Muhlberger's Early History has images and video from Pennsic. For those who don't know, Pennic is a huge annual SCA event.
• News for Medievalists has a post on Becket medieval art (with video), and one on an early medieval mill in Ireland.
• The Ruminate has a post on Bede and hybridity.
• Studies of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages announces Kevin Harty's new edited collection, Cinema Arthuriana.
• Gearwor gets in on the discussion of Remi Brague and medieval philosophy, and has an image of the 51 headless Vikings.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

After going two weeks without a Miscellany, I hit the reset button on the inter-net-o-web-o-sphere, and here's what's come up since then:

• A Commonplace Book has images from Pennsic.
• Gypsy Scholar has a post on Rémi Brague and medieval philosophy.
• The Lost Fort has a visit to Dunstaffnage Castle.
• Medieval News tells us of a 7th-century city discovered in Turkey.
• Podictionary tells us how the word tawdry comes from the 7th-century virgin St. Audrey. Fascinating.
• There was a ship graveyard found in the Baltic off the coast of Sweden, with ships going back to the Viking age.
• About.com tells us about Pope Innocent III.
• Firefly Studios has a "medieval fact of the week" series to promote their game "Stronghold Kingdoms." It looks like the game is going to be a historically-based MMO.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Having just returned from vacation, I found a lot of medieval items clogging the pipes of the Inter-web. Here are some of them:

• News for Medievalists has five new articles. Really, you should be going there on your own without me telling you.
• Medieval Cookery will be at GenCon.
• Gearwor has Beowulf fitts 14 & 15, and talks about three-word alliterative clusters and the word hilde in Beowulf.
• A Stitch in Time has some photos and video from her exhibition.
• Steven Till has the cover and publication info on Robin Hobb's Dragon Keeper.
• The Ruminate has a bibliography for Codex Boernerianus, and talks about the job market.
• Podictionary discusses the Old English origins of the word drive.
• Per Omnia Saecula has the latest on the "acts of lust" contest promoting the new EA Dante game, and watched Eragon so you don't have to.
• Got Medieval also has details on the Dante game.
• Old Norse News has a recent books round-up.
• Apparently there was a recent medieval Dr. Who episode.
• MEMO has two CfPs for K'zoo.
• Magistra et Mater continues blogging Leeds.
• Eileen Joy is blogging ISAS.
• JJ Cohen has three links you should have: The Global Middle Ages Project, MappaMundi, and the Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages.
• Also at In the Middle, the BABEL Working Group is on Facebook.
• DARC blogs two museum visits.
• Heroic Dreams reviews the documentary Reclaiming the Blade, which I really liked as well.
• The Heroic Age has almost a dozen CfPs, links, and other announcements.
• Heavenfield has a CfP on plague and famine, and talks about Bede's account of his meeting with Adomnan.
• The British Library will be getting the Macclesfield Alphabet Book. h/t The Cranky Professor, who also has a link to a slide show of MS images.
• A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe has a post on notaries' anthropomorphic animals symbols.
• Archaeology in Europe has about eight new articles.
• Matthew Gabriele has links for his Podcasts on Medieval Texts.

Morning Medieval Miscellany

Light (if any) blogging for the next few days. In the meantime:

• Archaeology in Europe has over a dozen new posts, many medieval.
• Another Damned Medievalist is looking for an August host for Carnivalesque. If you've got a blog that hasn't received much notice, hosting a Carnivalesque is a great way to let people know you're out there.
• Cinerati discusses the marketing of the World of Warcraft movie. Easily Distracted talks about the problems of making a game movie.
• A Commonplace Book discusses 15th-century shield use vs. modern reenactors' use, and has a 15th-century episode of Spanish chivalry.
• Dame Eleanor Hull discusses the painstaking research that has to take place before publishing medieval textual criticism.
• Got Medieval talks snail porn. The sad thing? I googled "snail porn" just to see what would happen, and his post isn't even the first hit.
• The Heroic Age has over a dozen new posts.
• DARC discusses iron mandrils.
• In the Middle has a post on gender in Middle English studies.
• The Lost Fort has images from the island of Staffa.
• Magistra et Mater discusses gender and history at Leeds.
• The Medieval Garden Enclosed has a post on chicory.
• Medieval Material Culture blog has an article on the service records of medieval English soldiers. News for Medievalists has more info on that database. So does About.com.
• About.com also has posts on the Vinland Map controversy and a metal detectorist's late-medieval find.
• Muhlberger's Early History has a post on Bernard of Clairvaux and the Knights Templar.
• Musings from a L.O.O.N. has a post on a medieval fortress being built in Arkansas. She was kind enough to send me some contact information, so I hope to have a post of my own on this after I return from vacation.
• I just bought a new cologne, but Per Omnia Saecula makes me regret my choice!
• Podictionary discusses the medieval origins of the word Wednesday. If you've never understood my bizarre references to Odin every time I post a Miscellany on Wednesday, this ought to clear it up.
• Obama is in league with Loki. h/t Poliblog.
• The Ruminate has a bunch of stuff.
• Steven till has a post on Old Wardour Castle, and the medieval history term of the week is reliquary.
• A Stitch in Time has a manuscript image of shoulder straps.
• Wormtalk and Slugspeak passes along a Tolkien CfP.

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

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

Circumstances have conspired to keep me from a full-bore Miscellany, but here's a little bit:

• Medieval Cookery has a post on the importance of a single word difference in manuscripts.
• Gearwor has Beowulf, Fitt 12 and a comment on sunflowers.
• There's a medieval manuscript illuminations exhibit at the National Museum of Art, entitled "Heaven on Earth." h/t About.com.
• Studies of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages has the medieval-themed offerings of TCM for July.
• A Stitch in Time discusses beeswax as a medieval sewing tool.
• The Medieval History Term(s) of the week are trivium and quadrivium.
• Yesterday was the Feast of St. Benedict.
• Owlfish went to a modern opera about a 12th-century troubador.
• The International Congress on Medieval Studies CfPs are up.
• In a new installment of Medieval Literature I Didn't Know, the Swain has Codex Boernerianus.
• Dr. Virago discusses pedagogy issues and Chaucer's placement in the curriculum.
• How did you spend Independence Day? Jeff Sypeck spent it listening to a Welsh woman retelling stories from the Mabinogion.
• News for Medievalists has an interview with Axel E. W. Müller.

Not even close to being caught up, but I put a little dent into it. By the way, here's a medieval blog called Medieval Times. Update blogrolls, etc.