A few quick links to some interesting news stories from this past week:

A medieval gold ring with a black diamond found by yet another metal detectorist. He estimates it at 11th century based on the lettering, but the form reminds me of styles of rings from the 15th century.
A seal of the Byzantine emperor Andronic […]

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The Private World of India’s Mughal Emperors: Albums of Painting and Calligraphy from the Chester Beatty Library is on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts through November 16.

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The Onion has a photo of the new fencing suit that may give competitors an unfair advantage.

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Started on a linkspage of men’s heraldic surcoats (including jupons, coat-armour, etc.); this is a separate page from the women’s surcoats and heralds’ tabards.

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Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture is on display at the Getty in Los Angeles through October 26.

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Tonight’s new linkspage is either on trumpet-banners or bannered trumpets, depending on your point of view.

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Latest linkspage covers wire and wiredrawing.
While we have a lot of modern electrical applications for wire today, medieval craftsmen used wire for a lot of different purposes — including pins, jewelry, and armor.

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A “calculator” used in the time of Geoffrey Chaucer and described as one of the most sophisticated such tools before the computer is to remain in London.
The Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant is one of only eight instruments of this type known to have survived from the Middle Ages, the British Museum said. The museum tried to […]

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Just a quick post to link to this list of museum exhibits in Italy. Some interesting stuff, but I’ve blogged about a lot of them here before.

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The Special Dead: A Medieval Reliquary Revealed will be on display at The Walters Art Museum through January 18.

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