[Sca-cooks] anthimus
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Sun Mar 6 16:34:11 PST 2005
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
--
"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them
eat cake!"
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782
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