[Sca-cooks] 12th Century

Mark S. Harris marksharris at austin.rr.com
Sun Feb 21 23:29:06 PST 2010


Marguerite fitzWilliam wrote:

<<< I don't suppose any one knows of a source for 12th century Norman/ 
French/Saxon or Welsh cooking information in English?  SCA  
translations and redctions are fine. >>>

To which 'Lainie replied:

<<< Marguerite, that I know of there are no actual recipes extant from  
that
time period. However, something you might think about exploring are
inventories and manorial records. They frequently list things like what
crops are being grown, what animals are kept, even what is growing in
the kitchen gardens. You won't get recipes, but you will learn a lot
about diet. And that's a start. >>>

I'm not sure if your interest spreads past food or not, but I will go  
out on a limb, and considering your name, assume yes it does.

If that is the case, you might want to take a look on the extensive  
set of bibliographies that can be found in THE 12TH CENTURY section of  
the Florilegium, most of which were written by 'Lainie.

12C-Art-Arch-bib  (12K)  1/ 8/01  "Art and Architecture" by HL Elaine de
                                      Montgris (known as 'Lainie).
12C-Biograph-bib  (25K)  1/13/01  "Biographies" by HL Elaine de Montgris
12C-Britain-bib   (28K)  2/ 4/01  "The British Isles" by HL Elaine de  
Montgris
12C-Chivalry-bib  (8K)  2/13/01  "Chivalry" by HL Elaine de Montgris
12C-Crusades-bib  (24K)  1/13/01  "The Crusades" by HL Elaine de  
Montgris
12C-Europe-bib     (8K)  1/18/01  "Continental Europe" by HL Elaine de
                                      Montgris (known as 'Lainie).
12C-Feudalism-bib (16K)  2/22/01  "Government and Feudalism" by HL  
Elaine de
                                      Montgris (known as 'Lainie).
12C-Law-bib       (11K)  1/14/01  "Law" by HL Elaine de Montgris
12C-Margins-bib   (12K)  1/ 7/01  "On the Margins (Women, sex,  
minorities,
                                      etc.)" by HL Elaine de Montgris.
12C-Movies-bib    (8K)  2/25/01  "Movies from 12th c. texts" by HL  
Elaine de
                                      Montgris (known as 'Lainie).
12C-Music-bib     (16K)  1/18/01  "Music" by HL Elaine de Montgris
12C-Must-Read-bib (20K)  1/ 7/01  "Must Read List" bibliography by HL  
Elaine
                                      de Montgris (known as 'Lainie).
12C-Normans-bib    (8K)  1/ 7/01  "The Normans" bibliography by HL  
Elaine de
                                      Montgris (known as 'Lainie).
12C-Philo-Edu-bib (10K)  1/14/01  "Philosophy and Education"  
bibliography by
                                      HL Elaine de Montgris (known as  
'Lainie).
12C-Pop-Lit-bib   (20K)  1/20/01  "Popular Literature" by HL Elaine de
                                      Montgris (known as 'Lainie).
12C-Religion-bib  (12K)  1/11/01  "Religion" by HL Elaine de Montgris

Stefan
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Mark S. Harris
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