[Sca-cooks] weird question - honey fast???

[Terry Decker]

> addressing the fact that bees _are_  animals, a point which has been 
> mentioned repeatedly by several people  here. The reader must conclude you 
> are either unaware of this fact  (which seems unlikely) or are positing 
> that medieval Europeans were  unaware of it (which is more likely, but 
> still not definite
>
> Adamantius

Aristotle, Pliny and Dioscorides refer to bees as animals, IIRC.  Their 
works contain a number of very solid observations and a number of errors of 
interpretation.  The probability that Medieval Europeans did not consider 
bees animals is rather low in my opinion.

Bear