SC - Fw: ANST - Chocolate Documentation!

[Yeldham, Caroline S]

I'm interested in Brian saying 1400 to 1460.

I've always been taught, and most of my reference books, indicate an ending
somewhere around the 1480s/1490s, with a practical cut-off point being 1500
if nothing else supercedes it.  For example, I've just been reading
Christopher Dyer Standards of Living in the later Middle Ages and since he's
talking about quite a big change post Black Death, for which most of his
evidence is from the 1400s, he's hardly got started before Brian would chop
him off!

I'd agree with him about the chocolate tho ...

Caroline

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Brian Matthews [SMTP:wilthain at worldnet.att.net]
> Sent:	Monday, March 09, 1998 4:25 PM
> To:	sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject:	Re: SC - Fw: ANST - Chocolate Documentation!
> 
> Nope  , not even grey-area . Scholarly middle ages end between 1400 & 1460
> AD (
> depending on specific area ) SCA middle ages at 1600 AD ( well 1601 if you
> take
> the pre-17th century description literally ) However it would be
> interesting to
> know the original source , I would venture to guess it was around a lot
> longer
> and didn't start its european life as candy .
> 
> Louise Sugar wrote:
> 
> > here is something rather interesting
> > <snip>
> > >O.K., so even the Spanish manuscript would be in the "grey area" as
> > >far as even the A&S documentation standards of several years ago are
> > >concerned. But this source does provide pre-18th century European
> > >usage of chocolate candy ("Dames of Mexico" presumably being the
> > >European colonials and not the peasantry, based upon the titulary
> > >usage of the term...)
> > >
> > >For Fun, and Service,
> > >Amra
> 
> <snip>
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> 
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>                             Wilthain Westbram
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