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

I saw Prince Caspian Friday with the kids, but haven't had the energy to review it yet. I'm not sure why -- for some reason, I just don't want to write a review; there's something about the genre that tires me. Also, I ordered my Anglo-Saxon outfit last night (complete with a Viking hat for my bald head), and I'll model it when it arrives for the blog-o-web-net-sphere-thingy if I can find a working digital camera, as mine has been broken for months.

Some medieval offerings for you:

• Jonathan Jarrett is hosting Carnivalesque XXXIX, with an awesome round-up of things ancient & medieval over the last few weeks. This should be your first stop!
• Got Medieval has a post on the odd pairing of the word "medieval" with the phrase "parking fines."
• This week's Mmm ... Marginalia is about Reynard and the Wheel of Fortune.
• The Swain posts his K'zoo paper on biblical exegesis. I've yet to read it ... guess I'll save that for the afternoon.
• Heavenfield has a post comparing Islamic and Northumbrian history, as well as posts on 6th-Century British plague, and an episode from the life of St. Brendan. My favorite moment in the St. Brendan story is when he, living on the back of a whale, "was astonished" to see a man riding a horse on the sea. You'd think he'd be rather blase about the whole thing.
• In the Middle points us to two new medieval blogs: The Furnace of Doubt and Medieval Cripples, Crazies and Imbeciles ... and a Service Dog? If the latter blog sticks around, we'll have to develop a shorthand for it, like MCCISD or Medieval Cripples or Cripples & Imbeciles. Anyhow, adjust your blogrolls and RSS feeds accordingly.
• The American Museum of Natural History has an exhibit including horse gear and armor from 15th-century Germany. Hat tip Medieval Material Culture. Speaking of horses, Steven Till gives us three medieval history terms this week, all related to horses.
• The Naked Philologist begins the first part in a series called "The Hilarious Death of St. Eadmund." I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who things that story is funny.
• News for Medievalists has had an update.

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.