SC - More Misinformation {LONG}
Chris Stanifer
jugglethis at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 30 09:57:25 PDT 2001
- --- Ann <sheltons at conterra.com> wrote:
> AARRGGHH!!! Be grateful I skipped the parts about
> the necessity of emetics
> in the feeding frenzy! I'll never be mistaken for a
> Medieval scholar, but I
> have read Platina, the Regimen Sanitatis, and a
> couple of the books on
> manners, and I don't remember anything on "binging
> and purging" being part
> of the recommended daily routine
Well, the excesses of the Greeks and Romans seem to be
fairly well known... and the need for a "vomitorium"
speaks volumes. Were these excesses based upon fact,
or are they a modern assumption based upon a cursory
reading of the more bawdy tales of the day? I can't
say for certain. Did this practice of over-indulgence
cross the temporal borders from antiquity to the
Middle Ages? I don't think so, personally. At least,
not as often as the author in question would have us
believe.
Balthazar of Blackmoor
=====
"The half full glass and the half empty glass both contain the same amount of liquid...the half empty glass, however, has a fly in it."
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