[Sca-cooks] Another look at a Florilegium entry...

[Elaine Koogler]

I just checked an article I remembered on this topic from "Medieval Food 
and Drink" series of essays published by the Center for Early 
Renaissance Studies at Binghampton University of the University of New 
York. The article, entitled "Eating and Drinking in the Bayeux Tapestry" 
by Rouben Cholakian, is a discussion of all of the scenes in the 
tapestry that deal with food and drink. In the part of the essay where 
this specific panel is discussed, he describes the bovines and the pig 
being taken to slaughter, mentioning that they seem to be headed in the 
wrong direction. He makes no mention of the pony being slaughtered as 
well. In fact he totally ignores the presence of the animal, with its 
handler, at all. I have to admit I had always thought that it was 
carrying stuff in the paniers over its back...rather than being 
slaughtered to be part of the feast...but that could be a deduction that 
I made based on not being used to seeing horsemeat used as part of a meal.

Kiri

Susan Fox-Davis wrote:

>Certainly the Saxon taboo is where we get it from.  But this was a Norman
>banquet, without that particular prohibition.  Doubtless they shocked the
>Saxons silly.
>
>Selene
>
>On 5/16/04 4:44 PM, "Patricia Collum" <pjc2 at cox.net> wrote:
>  
>
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