[Sca-cooks] anthimus

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Chris Stanifer:
>--- Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote:
>>  Anthimus according to Mark Grant wasn't published and widely distributed
>>  until 1864.
>>  There are apparently 9 surviving
>>  manuscripts or portions thereof. These include
>>    one from the 9th century; one 17th century; another that differs written
>>  after 849; another 11th century; a very bad 14th or 15th century one
>>  that is judged to be useless;
>>  a 10th century one that is partially useful and a partial (first chapter
>>  and into only) one dating from
>>  the 11th or 12th century.
>>  Ok, so would they have known about him or not? Question would be of
>>  course did anyone in the
>>  Medieval period or Renaissance talk about him or his works?
>
>
>What difference does it make whether the mass populace knew of him 
>or not?  Or whether he was
>mentioned in other works of the time?  As long as his work is 
>documentably period (which it is),
>it will provide a snapshot of the culinary landscape of the region in period.

The difference is, we know we can document Anthimus and his work. the 
question, though, seems to be whether a 15th-century person could do 
the same; I get the feeling Jadwiga is writing from within her 
persona, and is wondering if Jadwiga would have heard of him (or some 
permutation thereof).

There's a knight who used to be active locally, and he tells the 
story of arguing a point of period theology with Cariadoc, from their 
Norman and Moorish perspectives, respectively. Maybe something about 
transsubstantiaton. In the end, the Norman swore to the truth of his 
statement by Saint Goliath. HG opened his mouth and raised his finger 
to hotly argue this, and it suddenly hit him. How would _he_ know??? 
What could he do but concede?

Adamantius
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