This is a great gif of Fortune’s wheel:
Margery Kempe in Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07cyfkg
Very Small Manuscripts Now Online at British Library
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2016/05/size-matters.html
Medieval Banquet 2016
Medieval Studies at Geneseo invites you to a Medieval Banquet on Monday, May 2 at 5:30 p.m. Enjoy medieval food, music, and entertainment in a festive atmosphere at The Big Tree on Main Street in Geneseo. A limited number of tickets for $10 may be purchased with cash, credit, or meal card from The Big Tree or with cash from Prof. Jess Fenn (fenn@geneseo.edu). After the $10 tickets have been sold, tickets will cost $25 each. All tickets must be purchased by Monday, April 25. Please contact Prof. Fenn or visit http://medieval.
The Book of Hours
A blog post by Christopher de Hamel on the importance of the Book of Hours to medieval literacies:
http://www.textmanuscripts.com/blog/entry/3_16_reading-the-book-of-hours
Happy Spring: Harley MS 978 Digitized
The British Library has digitized Harley MS 978, which contains the Middle English canonĀ “Sumer is icumen in” with musical notation:
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2012/06/sumer-is-icumen-in.html
Digital Map of Medieval Manuscripts
The Sexy Codicology Team has developed a map with the locations of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts, viewable by clicking on a pinpoint on the map:
http://digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/
“Disneyfication” of Tintagel
The English Heritage foundation has commissioned a stone carving of Merlin’s face at legendary birthplace of King Arthur:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-35837271
Margery Kempe’s Aural Literacy
SUNY Geneseo’s Dr. Jess Fenn gave an invited talk about Margery Kempe at Pacific Lutheran University on Friday, March 4. A student at PLU posted about the talk on the English Department blog:
http://www.plu.edu/english/news/dr-jess-r-fenn-suny-geneseo-visits-plu/
On the Green Man
An article on the Green Man, with reference to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-remarkable-persistence-of-the-green-man?intcid=mod-latest