[Sca-cooks] Harvest times
Johnna Holloway
johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Thu May 11 05:45:00 PDT 2006
In Slovenia at the Bishop's Palace in Škofja Loka there
are copies and originals of medieval panels and/or frescos featuring a
medieval peasants engaged in a number of activities. These
aren't arranged by the month; rather most are connected to a theme of
"Things or activities that one isn't supposed to do on a Sunday."
One of the scenes indicates that one shouldn't thresh wheat
while naked. (The ladies harvesting were topless.)
The Dominion of Skofja Loka (973-1803) was under the rule of the
Freising Bishops of Bavaria so your search
might extend into the Balkans.
Slovenian spelling and the internet
is always interesting, but I finally located a picture.
http://www.slovenia.no/Museene/m_loski_muzej.htm
shows a version of it.
There's also a version at the National Ethnology Museum in Ljubljana too.
Johnnae
Volker Bach wrote:
>Salvete
>
>I'm working on a painted casket for my stuff and found an interesting early
>13th century cycle of 'Month pictures', but I'm wondering about their
>provenance. The thing is, they place haying in June, grain harvest in July,
>threshing in August, which seems a bit early for Northern Europe. The vintage
>is in October, which tends to be a bit cold and wet for that. Now, I'm not an
>expert on Europe's microclimates, but I'm sure there will be one here. So I'm
>wondering: does that generally square with Southern France or Northern Italy?
>Or is it more Central France/Southern Rhineland? I know it's wrong for my
>latitudes.
>Grazie
>Giano
>
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