[Ansteorra-announce] Stefan's Florilegium files for December

[Stefan li Rous]

Greetings to the Gentles across the Known World,

Here is a copy of my Florilegium article for December, detailing what 
is new in the Florilegium this month.

I'm always looking for neat, useful articles, bibliographies or even 
class handouts or A&S documentation that would be useful to folks 
around the Known World. If you know of any, please contact me. The 
copyright stays with the author. I just want to get these items out 
where interested folks can make use of them.

Also, to help cover the overhead of running the Florilegium site I have 
added a PayPal donation button on the top page of the site. You do not 
have to have a PayPal account to use this. If you prefer not to use 
PayPal, contact me by email and we can arrange something else. The 
Florilegium doesn't count as a non-profit in the government's eyes, so 
your donation is not tax deductible, but I appreciate it and if you've 
found the Florilegium to be useful or interesting through the years, 
this is one way to help it continue to do so.

Thanks,
   Stefan
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A Blending of the Past and Present

Over the past fourteen years in an ongoing effort, I have been 
collecting bits of useful information from various newsgroups, mail 
lists and articles submitted to me by their authors. In order to make 
this information available to others, I have placed this information in 
a series of files I call Stefan's Florilegium.

The Florilegium is on the web at: http://www.florilegium.org

I am always interested in new articles. If you have written an article 
that would be of interest to others in the SCA, please send it to me 
for possible inclusion in the Florilegium. Contact me for more details.

I am also interested in volunteers who might be interested in helping 
me maintain the Florilegium. Everything from collecting materials, 
editing and web work is needed. Again, please contact me for more 
details.

      THLord Stefan li Rous   Ansteorra    stefan at florilegium.org

One of my prime concerns currently is to update all files to the new 
format which includes several new features such as making links 
"pickable" and some  disguising of all email addresses to make it 
harder for the spammer's programs to harvest email addresses from this 
site. I support the execution of any convicted spammer. Yes, I am 
modifying all 1800+ files as fast as I can. This  means that while I 
will continue to add new files each month, the usual amount will be 
reduced. However, as I update the files to the new format, I am adding 
any information I have waiting to go in a file, so there will be more 
updated files. Please let me know if you like the new format or have 
any suggestions.

Here are the new files for this month:

In the CLEBRATIONS AND EVENTS section:
    holiday-gifts-lnks   Links to medieval holiday gifts
                            by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
In the CRAFTS section:
    Tool-Making-art      "Tool Making" by Master Tamlene ap Guidgen,
                            O.L. A class handout on making tools.
In the FOODS-BY-REGION section:
    ME-revel-fds-art     Medieval Middle Eastern foods suitable for a
                            revel or buffet w. recipes by Anahita.
In the TEXTILE-ARTS section:
    sprang-bib           Annotated bibliography on the art of sprang
                            weaving by Medb ingen Dungaile.

Here are just a some of the updated files, usually those with the 
largest amounts of new material:
    cl-Germany-msg       Clothing of Medieval Germany.
    birds-recipes-msg    Bird recipes. Squabs, pheasants, quail.
    blood-dishes-msg     Use of blood in period foods. Recipes.
    exotic-meats-msg     Period and SCA exotic meats. Swans, ostrich,
                            crawfish, dormice, cat.
    horse-recipes-msg    Period horse recipes. References.
    illusion-fds-msg     Medieval illusion foods. Diguised food.
    lamb-mutton-msg      Medieval lamb and mutton. Recipes.
    meat-smoked-msg      Medieval smoked meats. Smoking meats.
    organ-meats-msg      Period cooking of organ meats.
    rabbit-dishes-msg    Period rabbit and hare recipes.
    salmon-msg           Period use of Salmon. Recipes.

Here are a couple of files to help celebrate the holiday season:
    12th-nite-msg        12th Night celebrations.
    St-Nicholas-art      Article on the St. Nicholas traditions.
    Sugarplums-art       "Visions of Sugarplums" by Mistress
                            Renata Kestryl of Highwynds.
    toys-msg             Period and SCA toys.
    Toys-in-th-MA-art    "Toys in the Middle Ages" By Lady Margritte
                            of Ravenscroft.
    wassail-msg          Spiced cider and ale drinks. Traditions.
    Xmas-art             "The True Meaning of Xmas".
    Yule-msg             Yule celebrations.
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Copyright 2004, Mark S. Harris.
Permission to reprint in SCA-related publications is hereby granted if 
the contents are left unchanged and the author is notified of the 
publication. Notification may be by email and reformatting is allowed.

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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****