[Sca-cooks] Re:Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 21, Issue 125

[Marcus Loidolt]

Greetings all, 
I'm sorry to say when I looked at this site, I saw
such holes that I might drive a twenty mule team train
through. The great generalizations and blanket
statements just scathe me. 

and the 17th century shoes just took me over the top!

I will say that I don't know as Churchmen be they high
or low are any more prone to noticing or not noticing
their due than any layperson in like rank, and apt to
do a lot less damage in retaliation!

Johann



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> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:03:40 -0800 (PST)
> From: Huette von Ahrens <ahrenshav at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Sumptuary laws on food
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
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> --- Micheal <dmreid at hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:
> 
> >  Preliminary look found this by looking for
> > Sumptuary laws. Sorry not much 
> > really but does point towards Sumptuary food
> > laws.
> > 
> >
>
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/middleages/sumptuary/sumptuary.html
> > 
> > In those day when you had company over for a
> > meal you had to serve a 
> > specified number of courses depending on their
> > class in the feudal system. 
> > If you were inviting a high church official to
> > dinner, such as a cardinal, 
> > you would have to serve 9 courses. For guests
> > such as bishops, archbishops, 
> > or counts you had to serve 7 courses. An
> > ordinary government official would 
> > have just 6 courses.
> > 
> >  So if this is correct a great pie would get
> > around this in that it has 
> > several full course`s within one.
> > 
> >  Da
> 
> It might if you are thinking nutritionally.
> However, if you were noble enough to be
> entertaining a cardinal, I doubt if you would
> want to cut corners like that.  Churchmen were
> usually very conscious of their position and 
> might take offence if you offered only 6 or 7
> courses when they were deserving of 9.  Offending
> churchmen meant that you might not get that
> dispensation that you were looking for.
> This kind of sumptuary law, if it is correct,
> appears to be aimed at the nobility and not the
> lower classes, IMHO.
> 
> Huette
> End of Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 21, Issue 125
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