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

[Stefan li Rous]

Greetings to the Gentles of the Known World,

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

If you are the chronicler of a local newsletter and would like to get a 
copy of this article several weeks in advance so that you can have time 
to meet your publishing deadlines, please email me and send me your 
regular and SCA name, your group and its location, your publication 
name and the email which you would like me to send the article to. If 
you run an SCA-oriented website, I also have a version of this article 
formatted for web use.

This message should be going all kingdom mail lists, either directly or 
through a representative who forwards it for me. If you don't see it on 
a kingdom mail list, and yet see it on another kingdom's list, please 
contact me.

Stefan

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A Blending of the Past and Present

Over the past fifteen 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.

For those who would like to help support the Florilegium project in 
another way, I have added a PayPal donation button on the top page of 
the site. Any donations, while not tax deductible, do help pay the 
overhead costs of keeping the site running.

      THLord Stefan li Rous   Ansteorra    stefan at florilegium.org

Here are the new files for this month:
In the ANIMALS section:
    hounds-lnks          Links to information on medieval hound dogs
                            by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
In the CLOTHING section:
    smptuary-laws-lnks   Links to info on medieval sumptuary laws
                            by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
In the FEASTS section:
    Medievl-Feasts-art   "The Medieval Feast - An Event, Not Food"
                            by Mistress Willow de Wisp.
In the FOOD section:
    About-Cheese-art     "About Cheese" A tranlation by Aelianora de
                            Wintringham of a 1556 letter on Swiss
                            cheese and dairy products.
In the PERFORMANCE ARTS section:
    Entrtng-n-SCA-art    "Entertaining in the SCA: a short essay"
                            by Baron Hrolf Herjolfssen.
In the PERSONAS section:
    Barbrn-Persona-art   "Barbarian Personae" by Baron Hrolf Herjolfssen.
    Persona-CMA-art      "Persona in the Current Middle Ages;
                            Guidelines to persona play"
                            by Mistress Willow de Wisp.
In the PLANTS, HERBS AND SPICES section:
    hemp-nettle-art      "Two Food/Fiber/Medical plants in use in
                            Eastern Europe" by Jadwiga Zajaczkowa.
In the SCRIBAL ARTS section:
    p-graffiti-lnks      Links to medieval graffiti and marginalia
                            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:
    artichokes-msg       Period artichokes. Recipes. Cardoons.
    chairs-msg           Medieval and SCA chairs.
    compost-msg          A pickled food of fruits and vegetables.
    cook-ovr-fire-msg    Cooking over open fires. Outdoor feasts.
    dayboards-msg        SCA dayboards, middle-of-the-day meals.
    fd-decoratng-msg     Decorating and presenting period foods.
    lamps-msg            Medieval lamps and lamps for SCA use.
    p-petroleum-msg      Period use of petroleum. Crude oil.
    p-songs-msg          Period songs and song lyrics.
    peppers-msg          The introduction of peppers to Europe.
    root-veg-msg         Medieval and period root vegetables.
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Copyright 2005, 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 
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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 ****