Kalamazoo, day the last

Will blog about the middle later, but here are the highlights:

• Hanging out with colleagues from my state, who are now discussing a regular video-seminar
• Hearing about the ‘horses in mud’ paper
• Celebrating with my colleague from SLAC and my friends from other places
• Wonderful time talking to people at the dance last night
• Finding out that someone I thought hated me probably doesn’t
• Learning how to teach about early Christianity from Walter Goffart
• Finding out that Goths don’t always have moustaches and Romans often do
• Bees! Hymns to bees! Bees are monks, because they are virgins
• Did you know that Venetians were using surnames comparatively early?
• We need to rethink masculinity and take masculine studies away from the feminist paradigm; and think about the somatic rather than the discourse

eta: Also, loved the announcement that a rather well-known early medievalist was not chairing his session because he was in a boxing bout.