SC - Speaking of non-period children's material

[Olwen the Odd]

I just got the one on castles.  Have just thumbed it but am liking what I 
have seem so far.  I think I shall take it to Pennsic to read.  Right now, 
I'm too busy sewing.



>From: Jenne Heise <jenne at tulgey.browser.net>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: SCA-Cooks maillist <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: SC - Speaking of non-period children's material
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 09:06:15 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > Jadwiga Zajaczkowa said:
> > > Anyone seen the 'Smelly History' scratch'n'sniff series from Oxford
> > > University Press? Argh....
> > Wierd. More details please. I wonder what they could come up with,
> > and synethesis, that would be more characteristic of some periods
> > than others.
>
>Um, mostly they just smell BAD.  The books themselves are clearly designed
>for the purient interests of 8-11 year olds. In cartoon style, they depict
>various sources of bad smells (and some good ones) in period being
>discussed. Unfortunately, both the Tudor and Middle Ages volumes drag out
>the old rotten-meat heresy, and the one from the Middle Ages mentions
>strewing herbs in the context that rushes were changed but once a year,
>which is misconception that is now widely discredited, by references to
>changing of the rushes in period handbooks.
>
>On the other hand, I ran across a picture book on the Middle Ages-- "The
>Medieval World" by Philip Steele ( Larousse Kingfisher Chambers, to be
>released August 2000) that appeared to be quite accurate in its statements
>generally AND which mentioned the recipe for three colored pottage
>(someone help me here-- which recipe am I thinking of-- the one with
>green, yellow and red?) and accurately mentioned the three tinting agents.
>(The author also wrote a book on Knights and another on Castles...)
>
>Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
>disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
>    "My hands are small I know, but they're not yours, they are my own"
>
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Lady Olwen the Odd
Clan of Odds
House Blackstar
Barony of Bright Hills
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