Live-blogging Kalamazoo: The Pseudo Session, the Book Haul, and the Dance

[hrj]

Good Pseudo-Session. The middle paper was a bit weak (basically a linguistics riff relying entirely on scatological and sexual innuendo and homophony) but the first one (on secret societies and the true fate of Richard I) was delightfully innovative and the last -- in which ajodasso and her sweetie reveal the true origins and secrets of the Templars -- totally rocked. As usual, all descriptions are inadequate -- you had to be there.

And since I have a half hour before we meet up to go to the dance, I can fit in the book-haul post before I pack them up to ship home tomorrow morning. ETA: Great fun at the dance. I hung out with my usual girl-gang, dancing about 80% of the time. Even asked a complete stranger to dance and she came back later and danced with us again. I can do a good imitation of a social creature with the right henchwomen.



Almond, Richard. 2009. Daughters of Artemis: The Huntress in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. D.S. Brewer.

Kind of a no-brainer, right? Lots of pretty pictures of women hunting.

Basing, Patricia. 1990. Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts. New Amsterdam.

I've used this as an image source in the past, so it makes sense to own a copy.

Campbell, Marian. 2009. Medieval Jewellery in Europe 1100-1500. Victoria and Albert.

This isn't the big enormous expensive medieval jewelry book -- just a nice little coffee table survey.

Cummins, W. A. 1999. The Picts and Their Symbols. Sutton Publishing.

I'm not at all sure I buy Cummins' theory about the Pictish symbols being a pictographic writing system for personal names, but it's a useful reference work on the images themselves.

Eska, Charlene M. 2009. Cáin Lánamna: An Old Irish Tract on Marriage and Divorce Law. Brill.

I've been meaning to pick up a good facing-page bilingual edition of this item for quite some time now. I really was not influenced in the slightest by how cute the Brill saleswoman was and the fact that she chatted me up for a quarter of an hour.

Leahy, Kevin & Roger Bland. 2009. The Staffordshire Hoard. The British Museum Press.

Just a cheap, brief little museum brochure on the new A.S. jewelry hoard, but it has lots of nice pictures and the definitive publications won't be coming out for a while.

McGee, Timothy J. 1985. Medieval and Renaissance Music: A Performer's Guide. University of Toronto Press.

It's McGee. It's one of the standard works on the topic (and very approchable). If I ever decide to work on my performance technique, it's a good book to have.

Netherton, Robin & Gale R. Owen-Crocker, eds. 2010. Medieval CLothing and Textiles 6. The Boydell Press.

Duh.

Piponnier, Françoise & Perrine Mane. 1997. Dress in the Middle Ages. Yale University Press.

I really should have bought this a long time ago, but it's more theoretical than my usual interests. But since I spotted a second hand copy at the Powell's tables ....

Roberts, Michae & Simone Clarke eds. 2000. Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales. University of Wales Press.

How could this book have been in print for a decade and me not already own it? Clearly I need to take regular looks at the U of Wales Press website and put in orders.

Scarisbrick, Diana & Martin Henig. 2003. Finger Rings. Ashmolean Museum Oxford.

A nice little survey, and cheap.

Strand, Eva Andersson, Margarita Gleba, Ulla Mannering, Cherine Munkholt & Maj Ringgard eds. 2010. Northern European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT) X. Oxbow Books.

Duh.

Wood, Robin. 2005. The Wooden Bowl. Stobart Davies Ltd.

A really pretty book on turned wood bowls and bowl-like objects with the majority of the examples being pre-modern, but also illustrations of pre-industrial production techniques in general.

Also two other books bought at Oxbow that I left as display copies so I don't have the bibliographic information on them. One is on Turkish kaftans, the other is a bibliography of publications on cloth and clothing in Britain. And a copy of Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog, a collection of the blog entries by that name and essays on blogging in academia, which will be shipped. Also bought three CDs of medieval music and some amber jewelry.

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[acanthusleaf.livejournal.com]

The V&A refuse to reprint the big expensive jewelry book, so that one and some other overlapping volumes attempt to fill the void. Scarisbrick's Historic Rings is very good too. I want to be Diana Scarisbrick when I grow up.

And wow, Robin Netherton finally published her book? What is the reaction from the usual Gothic Fitted Dress costuming crowd?

As usual, I'm loving the updates!

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Re: Robin Netherton -- this is the annual journal she and Gale edit, not her own research. (Although some of her articles have appeared in past volumes of the journal.)