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A few links of interest:
First, two more reviews of the recent movie Beowulf, as much to keep track of them for myself as for anyone else who is interested:
Richard North, Professor at University College London, in Time Out London
John V. Fleming, distinguished medievalist and Professor Emeritus of Princeton, in The National Review
Even more exciting: a new find at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, in a Roman cemetary! A stone sarcophagus preserved the bones, and the leather shoes, of a mother and child buried together in the second or third century AD (or CE, if you prefer):
A news item at Wessex Archaeology
News blog at Wessex Archaeology, with a twelve-minute video of opening the sarcophagus
Here's an exhibition I would pay a lot to see, but, sadly, not the $1000 or so the planet ticket would cost on top of the £5 admission: "Alfred the Great: Warfare, Wealth + Wisdom" at the Winchester Discovery Centre! They say they will have seven æstels! (That is, of course, assuming that the jewels that seem to belong at the ends of rods are in fact æstels or part of æstels; "book pointer" is only one possible sense of the rare word.) They're bringing the Alfred Jewel in from the Ashmolean! I love the Alfred Jewel. It's gorgeous. I have seen it a few times in Oxford. I don't see listed on the site, but I have been told, that the Fuller Brooch and at least two ninth-century manuscripts will also be featured: the Hatton Pastoral Care and the Tollemache Orosius. There's just no way I'll make it to England before April 27! Please, someone on my flist, go! Take pictures for me! (assuming they're allowed). I would so love to see it, but I'm stuck in Florida! Aaauuugggghhhhh!
ETA: I went looking to see if I could find images of the Hatton Pastoral Care and the Tollemache Orosius; I had no luck, but I found that they've got Turning the Pages finally working at the British Library, even for Mac users (although I have to click on the bar; I can't drag covers or pages as PC users apparently can). Go there! Look at the Lindisfarne Gospels or the Luttrell Psalter!
First, two more reviews of the recent movie Beowulf, as much to keep track of them for myself as for anyone else who is interested:
Richard North, Professor at University College London, in Time Out London
John V. Fleming, distinguished medievalist and Professor Emeritus of Princeton, in The National Review
Even more exciting: a new find at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, in a Roman cemetary! A stone sarcophagus preserved the bones, and the leather shoes, of a mother and child buried together in the second or third century AD (or CE, if you prefer):
A news item at Wessex Archaeology
News blog at Wessex Archaeology, with a twelve-minute video of opening the sarcophagus
Here's an exhibition I would pay a lot to see, but, sadly, not the $1000 or so the planet ticket would cost on top of the £5 admission: "Alfred the Great: Warfare, Wealth + Wisdom" at the Winchester Discovery Centre! They say they will have seven æstels! (That is, of course, assuming that the jewels that seem to belong at the ends of rods are in fact æstels or part of æstels; "book pointer" is only one possible sense of the rare word.) They're bringing the Alfred Jewel in from the Ashmolean! I love the Alfred Jewel. It's gorgeous. I have seen it a few times in Oxford. I don't see listed on the site, but I have been told, that the Fuller Brooch and at least two ninth-century manuscripts will also be featured: the Hatton Pastoral Care and the Tollemache Orosius. There's just no way I'll make it to England before April 27! Please, someone on my flist, go! Take pictures for me! (assuming they're allowed). I would so love to see it, but I'm stuck in Florida! Aaauuugggghhhhh!
ETA: I went looking to see if I could find images of the Hatton Pastoral Care and the Tollemache Orosius; I had no luck, but I found that they've got Turning the Pages finally working at the British Library, even for Mac users (although I have to click on the bar; I can't drag covers or pages as PC users apparently can). Go there! Look at the Lindisfarne Gospels or the Luttrell Psalter!
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