Date: Tue Jul 16, 2002 3:55 pm
Subject: Links: Pennsic Newspaper,Writing Research, Online Medieval Library, Medieval Review, Forks, Chainmail, Vatican Exhibit, Manuscript Lesson Plans, Resources, Anglosaxon Poetry & Charms, Old English, Stone Sculpture, Coins, Robin Hood, Encyclopedia Mythica, Hebrew Songs, Language Museum
Hello everyone! A colossal case of the 'flu is going to keep my commentary short this week. There is a little bit of this and that for you to pore over, especially if you are looking for early England-based literature, coins, research materials, or medieval-subject book reviews. There's a chain-mail how-to site, some history of eating utensils, lesson plans for teaching from medieval manuscripts, and there's even a guide for writing scholarly papers for University (also applicable for large A & S competitions).
Enjoy these sites, and feel free to pass the list or bits of it along wherever it will find interest.
Cheers
Aoife, the perpetually sniffling librarian
The Known World Independent
http://www.pennsicindependent.com/kwi.html
(Site Excerpt) Your Source for
SCA Known World News, Helpful Articles, And Literature On-line
WRITING RESEARCH ESSAYS IN NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS - A GUIDE FOR
STUDENTS OF ALL NATIONS
http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/research_essays.htm
This site, handy for people who wish to write research materials about medieval
subjects, is an excellent tutorial for those who are NOT university students,
as well as those who are.
Online Medieval and Classical Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
(Site Excerpt) The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection
of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization
The Medieval Review
http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/
(Site Excerpt) Since 1993, The Medieval Review (TMR; formerly the Bryn Mawr
Medieval Review) has been publishing reviews of current work in all areas of
Medieval Studies, a field it interprets as broadly as possible. The electronic
medium allows for very rapid publication of reviews, and provides a computer
searchable archive of past reviews, both of which are of great utility to scholars
and students around the world.
A History of the Table Fork (Note that this is an SCA-centric site, and the
word "period" in this context means 600 to 1650 CE, approximately)
http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/LifeTimes/TableFork.html
(Site Excerpt) Many people think of the table fork as either "out of period"
or "very late period." Often people insist that the only period forks
have two tines. Actually, table forks were known and used before the year 1000
in the middle east [Boger, Giblin]. Forks made before 1600 with as many as five
tines still exist today. What is the real history of the table fork? Let us
see.
The History of Eating Utensils
http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/utensil/
(Site Excerpt) The Anthropology Department at the California Academy of Sciences
houses the Rietz Food Technology Collection. Containing approximately 1,700
items, this collection was assembled by Carl Austin Rietz, an inventor and businessman
in the food industry. His interest in the industry led him on travels around
the world to collect objects used in the production, processing, storage, presentation,
preparation, and serving of food.
The Apprentice Armorer's Illustrated Handbook For Making Mail: A Clear Systematic
Guide for the Do-It-Yourselfer
http://realbeer.com/jjpalmer/HowtoChain.html
(Site Excerpt) This handbook is intended to provide a simple, systematic
approach for making Mail Armor. While many books describe the use of mail
and may show a picture of a person wearing it, the materials and processes
for making mail have not been well addressed. This handbook contains clear
illustrations and lessons-learned, so that anyone who has the curiosity can
indulge in a new hobby. As a hobby, making mail may be rather new, but the
concept has been in use for millenia. From the time of the Romans until
about 1350 AD, Mail was the warrior's principle defense against cutting
weapons.
Vatican Exhibit Main Hall (library of Congress)
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/Main_Hall.html
(Site Excerpt, from Introduction) ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY & RENAISSANCE
CULTURE, An Exhibit at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540 . ROME
REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE presents some 200 of the
Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps--many of which
played a key role in the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece
and Rome. The exhibition presents the untold story of the Vatican Library as
the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of Rome as a political and
scholarly superpower during the Renaissance
Medieval Manuscript Lesson Plans
http://www.utah.edu/umfa/contents.html
(Site Excerpt from Aknowledgements) The following sources have been consulted
for the creation of the materials in this packet: The following sources have
been consulted for the creation of the materials in this packet: The following
sources have been consulted for the creation of the materials in this packet:
Boussard, Jacques, The Civilization of Charlemagne. London: World University
Library,1968 ; Brinton, Crane, et al Civilization in the West. NJ: Prentice
Hall, Inc., 1964; Denny, Rodney Heraldry and the Heralds. London: Jonathan Cape,
1982; Gies, Frances & Joseph, Women in the Middle Ages: The lives of real
women in a vibrant age of transition. NY: Harper Perennial, 1980 ; Groiler Multimedia
Encyclopedia 1996 version ; Lasko, Peter, The Kingdom of the Franks: Northwest
Europe Before Charlemagne. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1971; Painter, Sydney, William Marshall:
Knight-Errant, Baron and Regent of England; Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press,
1933; Peterson, Elizabeth A. Paging Through Medieval Lives: Catalog to the Exhibition,
Tryst Press, Salt Lake City, 1997;
Medieval Resources
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/medieval/medieval.ebbs.html
A list of links to other web and print-based resources for the study of
the Middle Ages, including list-serves and discussion lists.
The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
ftp://ftp.std.com/obi/Anglo-Saxon/aspr/contents.html
This is a webbed version of the known collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. Although
weighty to wade through, the About section is highly reccomended before reading
the corpus.
Anglo Saxon Charms (note that a more complete set of Charms is located at the end of the above page, untranslated) http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kjolly/unc.htm (Site Excerpt) The following Anglo-Saxon charms were translated by Karen Louise Jolly in her book, Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context (1996). Copyright is held by the University of North Carolina Press, who has granted permission for electronic publication at this site. Please feel free to use this site for educational purposes but maintain this copyright statement in all references. Thank you.
Old English Pages
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/old_english.html
(Site Excerpt) An encyclopedic compendium of resources for the study of Old
English and Anglo-Saxon England. Part of ORB, the On-Line Reference Book for
Medieval Studies.
AWRITAN ON ENGLISC: Englisc List Website--A Forum for Composition in Old English
http://www.rochester.edu/englisc/
(Site Excerpt) Wilcume, leofe lar-gebroðor ond lar- gesweostor! These pages
announce the ENGLISC COMPOSITION LISTSERV, an electronic discussion group dedicated
to writing and communicating in Old English. The following paragraphs include:
The rationale for the listserv and its inception , How to subscribe , The aims
and activities of ENGLISC , Finished or "in-progress" compositions
in Old English , Other on-line resources for teaching and learning Old English
.
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture at the University of Durham
http://www.dur.ac.uk/corpus/
A collection of Anglo-Sasxon stone carvings, with links to other CORPUS collections.
Early Medieval Coin Finds
http://www-cm.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/emc
(Site Excerpt) A project to gather together into a single database all of the
single finds of coins minted 410-1180 found in the British Isles. There are
several thousand such coins, mostly Anglo-Saxon and Norman, but with a smattering
of Frankish, Byzantine, even Arabic, and hundreds more are found every year.
The EMC is the first attempt to collect all of the coins from the whole period
(many of them previously unpublished) and present them in an easily accessible
and searchable form. It is based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and funded by the
Leverhulme Trust.
Checklist of Coin Hoards from the British Isles
http://www-cm.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/Coins/hoards/index.html
(Site Excerpt) This is a revised and extended version of the article by Mark
Blackburn and Hugh Pagan, 'A revised check-list of coin hoards from the British
Isles, c.500-1100', in Anglo-Saxon Monetary History, ed. M. A. S. Blackburn
(Leicester, 1986), pp. 291-313, which was itself a revision of a hoard listing
by Michael Dolley published in 1966. The present web version includes a number
of corrections to entries in the previous version, plus some 102 new hoards.
Robin Hood: The Early Poems
http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/%7Eohlgren/
(Site Excerpt)Selected Studies by Thomas H. Ohlgren, Professor of English,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907
Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html
(Site Excerpt) This is an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and
more. It contains over 6000 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural
beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world. It is by
no means a complete work and I try to update it frequently by adding new articles
and expanding or revising existing articles. However, since this is rather a
lot of work for one man to do, I welcome contributions; either more information
on existing articles or completely new ones. You can find more information about
contributing here.
HebrewSongs.com
http://www.hebrewsongs.com/
While this site has a great many new songs, some old ones (Psalms for instance)
are included, as well as sound clips.
Language Museum
http://www.language-museum.com/
Note that several dead languages are represented here. A written sample, translation,
estimated population of speakers, and source for that language in the world.
(Site Excerpt) Language Museum: the samples of 2000 languages in the world