SC - Period serving practices

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/29/2000 6:21:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, Aldyth at aol.com 
writes:

<< Does 
 this practice only pertain to late period Elizbethan feast?  Italian?  All 
 late period feasts?  Was this practice only done once at one late period 
 feast, and mentioned in the book? >>


No.  The book I mentioned, The Great Household in Late Medieval England, is 
based on existing account books from numerous households of nobles and others 
of high rank.  These books show how many were fed at each meal, etc, and the 
information has been combined in charts showing when various households fed 
their nobles and staff.  The practice apparently appears in all the household 
sources used to research the book.  Nowhere does it mention that a single 
household ate their main meal in the evening.
This book also refers to *Late Medieval* England.  This is not the same as 
*late period*.  Late medieval England would equate roughly to the 14th and 
15th centuries.

Brangwayna Morgan