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

[Stefan li Rous]

Greetings to gentles across the Known World,

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

If you have any comments, criticisms or suggestions for the Florilegium 
please feel free to email them to me.

After 22 years at Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor as a printed circuit 
board designer I was recently laid off. What this means is that I am 
now having to watch my expenses much closer than I have been. The 
Florilegium is a continuing expense but I would like to keep making it 
available. If you have enjoyed the Florilegium site over the years and 
found it useful, please consider using the PayPal donation button I 
have added to the top page of the site. Unfortunately, the donation is 
not tax deductible for you.

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 ANIMALS section:
    Bestiaries-lnks      Links to on medieval bestiaries by Dame
                            Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
In the BEVERAGES section:
    Eiswein-msg          Wine made from grapes left on the vine until
                            after the first frost.
In the FOOD section:
    cheese-lnks          Links to medieval and modern cheese
                            by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
In the PERFROMANCE ARTS section:
    muaic2-lnks          Links to medieval European music
                            by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.

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.
    almond-milk-msg      Making almond milk. Recipes. Deskinning nuts
    angelica-msg         Period use of Angelica. Recipes.
    aspic-msg            Notes on aspic, a meat-base gelatin.
    butter-msg           Period butter. Making butter. Butter churns.
    cinnamon-msg         Period cinnamon. Types of cinnamon.
    fd-monks-msg         Food of medieval monks.
    flowers-msg          Period flowers. Growing flowers.
    G-of-Paradse-msg     History and use of the spice Grains of Paradise.
    gardens-msg          Medieval gardens. flowers.
    herbs-msg            Herbs used in period and how they were used.
                            Modern sources.
    humorl-theory-msg    Concepts of medieval Humoral Theory.
    maize-msg            Discovery of maize (Indian corn) in the
                            Americas and its introduction to Europe.
    nuts-msg             Nuts, acorns, nut flours in medieval foods.
    p-fd-coloring-msg    Period food colorings.
    p-travl-guides-msg   Period travel guides.
    salads-msg           Period salads. lettuce, greens.
    SCA-transport-msg    Typical and unusual SCA vehicles and 
transportation.
    ships-msg            Ships and shipbuilding. Sailor's food.
    song-sources-msg     Sources for medieval songs. Book reviews.
    spices-msg           Info. on spices, sources for spices.
    woad-msg             History of woad. Making dyes from woad.
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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 ****