[Sca-cooks] Period German menus

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:

>> Maybe not. For example, isn't a Hungarian boyar basically a rancher
>> of sorts? Yes, he's holding a lot of land, is a de facto thegn, and
>> is a farmer who raises cows. Problem???
>
> Ok, *you* get to explain that to Tanczos Istvan. We'll be selling
> tickets to watch from under The Rock.

It's that Indo-European Bo-thingy. Bo-vine, Tain Bo Cualgne, Boeuf,  
Bo-yar, Bauer, etc. It's all about the cows...

Putting it another way: in a herding economy, cows are wealth and  
power, and when Rumpolt speaks of a feast for a farmer, he's  
presumably not talking about serfs or even tenants.

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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