SC - Queen's Prize, was A&S entry (long)

[Serian]

Christine A Seelye-King wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:39:23 -0800 lilinah at earthlink.net writes:
> > Olwen wrote:
> > >By the looks of the menu reciepts, how in the heck did anyone stay
> > >thin?  One bite of each?
> >
> > Walking, walking, walking, and more walking. Want to go somewhere?
> > Most likely you walked. Even nobility did a lot of walking.
> 
> And shivvering.  Seriously.  It takes a lot of calories to keep warm by
> shivvering.
> Christianna

True, they had no central heating, and it also appears that ambient
temperatures were lower in the Tudor and Elizabethan periods than at
other times in period. Maybe not on the scale of the "mini-Ice-Age" of
the fourteenth century, but enough to affect both eating and clothing styles.

Of course, if they had looked beneath the floors of some of those Roman
ruins, they could have figured out centrasl heating ;  ) ...
 
Adamantius
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