[Sca-cooks] Roysonys of courance

[Terry Decker]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> Modern nomenclature for the particular grape is Champagne
>> Grape (apparently
>> as one of the three varieties blended to produce champagne),
>> Zante Currant
>> Grape, and Black Corinth Grape.
>>
>> Bear
>>
>
> Ah.  But would there be any info on what the 14th-16th century Englishman 
> would have called such fruit?
>
> niccolo

"Grapes" or possibly "black grapes" given the darkness of them.  Identifying 
specialty grapes by locale seems to be out of period (Pliny and some other 
writers excepted), although other products are identified with location 
which provided connotations about item, cost, quality, etc.  Barbary sugar, 
Turkish corn, and, yes, raisins of Corinth are examples.

A 14th to 16th Century Englishman might have identified Zante grapes as 
Corinthian grapes, but there is evidence for that usage at present.

Bear