[Sca-Cooks] Wikipedia article on Medieval Cuisine
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Tue Jul 31 04:39:06 PDT 2007
> In some seriousness though, Poland and some of the other Eastern
> European countries hadn't really embraced the Renaissance yet. So,
> they could be considered still in the Middle Ages.
Um, er. I beg to differ. By the 16th century, Poland was in heavy
contact with Italy and definitely had embraced the Renaissance.
(Machiavellian politicking and a form of democracy was in fact their
downfall...)
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