[Sca-cooks] what the Franks were eating

[Sam Wallace]

Liutgard,

"Then there's this:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulare_de_villis_vel_curtis_imperii  The
Capitulare was basically the instructions that Charlemagne sent out on
how he wanted his various estates run, including what was to be grown in
the gardens, fields, orchards, etc. This page is in German, but if you
scroll down, you'll find the Latin names for these plants. Occasionally
there's two listed, apparently because for the one original word, there
are two possibilities as to what the plant is. There's a very wide
variety of fruit and vegetables, some medicial herbs, and some nuts. A
_very_  interesting list."


Here is the Capitulare de villis in Latin, if it is of interest:

http://diglib.hab.de/mss/254-helmst/start.htm

This is a parallel transcription and translation:

http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/polyptyques/capitulare/latin2english.html

In general, the whole site is wonderful, having other Carolingian 
Polyptyques, just as nicely laid out.

http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/polyptyques/index.html

And this is another transcription of the original, though formatting was 
not kept. It does have a very interesting illustration, though.

http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost08/CarolusMagnus/kar_vill.html

I hope this is of use,

Guillaume