[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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