[Sca-cooks] Stefan's Florilegium files for April

[Stefan li Rous]

Greetings to the Gentles of the SCA-Cooks list,

Here is a copy of my Florilegium article detailing what is new in the  
Florilegium for April.

If you or someone you know has written a good article on any aspect  
of the Middle Ages or life in the SCA, please send a copy to me for  
possible inclusion in the Florilegium. The copyright remains with the  
author and I will take updates or removal requests at any time.

I am also looking for volunteers to help me save and edit the best  
information that gets posted to the hundreds of public medieval mail  
lists. It is impossible for me to keep up more than a few and there  
is a lot of good, useful info that is posted out there. It is a shame  
that it gets seen by only the few people on those lists at that time.  
I'd like this wonderful information available to more people.

Stefan
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A Blending of the Past and Present

Over the past sixteen years in an ongoing effort, I have been  
collecting bits of useful information from various newsgroups, mail  
lists and articles submitted to me by their authors. In order to make  
this information available to others, I have placed this information  
in a series of files I call Stefan's Florilegium.

The Florilegium is on the web at: http://www.florilegium.org

I am always interested in new articles. If you have written an  
article that would be of interest to others in the SCA, please send  
it to me for possible inclusion in the Florilegium. Contact me for  
more details.

I am also interested in volunteers who might be interested in helping  
me maintain the Florilegium. Everything from collecting materials,  
editing and web work is needed. Again, please contact me for more  
details.

For those who would like to help support the Florilegium project in  
another way, I have added a PayPal donation button on the top page of  
the site. Any donations, while not tax deductible, do help pay the  
overhead costs of keeping the site running.

      THLord Stefan li Rous   Ansteorra    stefan at florilegium.org

Here are the new files for this month:
In the CULTURES section:
    Africa-lnks          Links to info on medieval Africa by Dame
                            Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
In the ENTERTAINMENT section:
    Knucklebones-art     “Knucklebones” by THL Dagonell Collingwood
                            of Emerald Lake.
In the FEASTS section:
    Danelaw-feast-art    A 9th Century Anglo-Saxon feast served at
                            the SCA's Market Day at Jorvik event.
In the HOME, SWEET HOME section:
    torches-msg          Medieval torches.
In the PERFORMANCE-ARTS section:
    The-Fool-n-SP-art    "The Historical Fool in Shakespeare's King
                            Lear" by Lady Eleanor Cleavely.

Here are some of the updated files.
    baked-cheese-msg     Period baked cheese dishes.
    flour-msg            Types of flour. Sources. Period flour.
    galangale-msg        Period use of the spice galangale.
    marshmallows-msg     The original marshmallow treats, made from
                            the Marsh Mallow plant.
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Copyright 2007, Mark S. Harris.
Permission to reprint in SCA-related publications is hereby granted  
if the contents are left unchanged and the author is notified of the  
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****