[Sca-cooks] Heston Blumentahl Tudor meal
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Tue Feb 26 07:23:43 PST 2013
Well, a number were Christian, after all, and it's often been said that
subsequent Christian revels derived from Roman pagan antecedents:
"If we compare," says William Prynne, in his Histrio-Mastix, "our
Bacchanalian Christmas and New-Year's tides with these Saturnalia and feasts of
Janus, we shall find such near afflnityebetweene them both in regard of time
(they being both in the end of December and on the first of January), and in
their manner of solemnizing (both being spent in revelling, epicurisme,
wantonuesse, idleness, dancing, drinking, stage-plaies, masques, and carnall
pomps and jollity), that we must needes conclude the one to be but the ape
or issue of the other. Hence Polydore Vergil affirmes in express terms that
our Christmas Lords of Misrule, which custom, saith he, is cheefly
observed in England, together with dancing, masques, mummeries, stage-playes, and
such other Christmas disorders now in use with Christians, were derived
from the Roman Saturnalia and Bacchanalian festivities, which (concludes he)
should cause all pious Christians to abominate them."
_http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA10&ei=oNIsUYqvBeSbjALRj4CYCQ&id=nVIFAAAA
QAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false_
(http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA10&ei=oNIsUYqvBeSbjALRj4CYCQ&id=nVIFAAAAQAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false)
Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com
Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy:
Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France
In a message dated 2/26/2013 3:44:10 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
agora158 at gmail.com writes:
Which Roman emperor should celebrate a celt-German celebration?
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