[Sca-cooks] Call for Papers: The Alexandrian Company Symposium on Food and Festivals in the Middle Ages 8/25/01

[Mark.S Harris]

I thought some of you might be interested in this, either as teachers
or students. I have this on my calender and am planning on going. I've
been to the first two, but the last one they scheduled for during
Pennsic. :-(  This is the first one they done that centered on food.

Though it took them awhile, they did finally print up the proceedings
from the previous symposiums. Even if you can't make it, I think many
of you all might be interested in the proceedings.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net


Subject: [Ansteorra] Call for Papers: The Alexandrian Company Symposium
on Food and Festivals in the Middle Ages 8/25/01
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:42:26 -0500
From: "C. L. Ward" <gunnora at vikinganswerlady.org>
To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>, <ansteorra-laurels at ansteorra.org>,
<sca-laurels at ansteorra.org>

The Alexandrian Company is pleased to announce The Fourth Alexandrian
Symposium, to be held Saturday, August 25, 2001, in San Antonio, Texas.

The theme for the 4th Alexandrian Symposium is FOOD AND FESTIVAL. This
includes such various subjects as feasting, fasting, holidays,
Lent/Mardi
Gras, food in religion and ritual, food in literature, the politics of
food,
period food sales and merchanting, spices, table manners, eating habits
of
various cultures and any other subjects pertaining to the cultivation,
consumption or restriction of food prior to 1600 AD. As this is a
scholarly
lecture and presentation symposium, classes will NOT include cooking
workshops. Instructors, however, are allowed to bring appropriate
samples of
period food for their classes -- as long as they bring enough for
everyone!

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL CALL FOR CLASS PROPOSALS!!!

Topics we would like to see classes on include: Lent and its history;
foods
mentioned in period literature; the influence of food on politics and
history; the effect of New World foods on European cooking and cuisine;
how
period festivals were celebrated esp Easter, Christmas, Mardi
Gras/Carnival,
May Day, etc; Jewish food & festivals; Muslim food & festivals; period
cooking methods and utensils; a survey of period bread; presentations on
the
techniques of recipe redaction, to include information on locating the
medieval recipes and the research techniques needed to transform this
into a
modern recipe; classes discussing the research and archaeology for early
period foods; symbolic food - how food is used in an art-historical
sense in
the medieval "language" of paintings of the saints etc.; and anything
else
you would find interesting and entertaining.

Submit class proposals or ideas to Karen Moon, 114 Conway Dr., San
Antonio,
TX 78209, or via email to karenmoon at msn.com.

Questions? Write Carolle Ternus at cternus at texas.net or see the
Alexandrian
Company webpage at http://www.vikinganswerlady.org/alexandrians/