[Bryn-gwlad] trenchers and plateware

[Dora Smith]

DISHES went out of style?!!

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24 at yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim McDaniel" <tmcd at panix.com>
To: "Barony of Bryn Gwlad" <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Bryn-gwlad] trenchers and plateware


> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Dora Smith <villandra at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>> Since the Romans ate from plates and bowls, why would not the European
>> nobility have done so in medieval times?
> 
> The early Imperial Romans also ate while reclining on couches, wore
> togas, and based their armies on infantry, all of which went out of
> style (though infantry as mainstays of the army eventually came back
> for a time).  That a group of people did something at a given time
> doesn't mean that their successors did.  In the field of names, which
> I know something about, I could probably find dozens of Irish names
> known only early, but that just lost popularity -- or the 12th Century
> explosion of odd names that just went away in the 13th.
> 
> It's not even true that if a people did something at time A and time
> B, that they did it at all times in between.  The easiest example is
> concrete: used extensively in the Roman Empire, lost, rediscovered in
> the 19th Century.
> 
> DdL
> -- 
> Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
> _______________________________________________



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