[Sca-cooks] Two banquet accounts from Travels of Leo of Rozmital

Daniel Myers dmyers at medievalcookery.com
Tue Mar 11 06:54:12 PDT 2014



"Everyone was silent and not a word was spoken."

For some reason I can't see this going over well at an SCA feast.



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> From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>
> Date: Mon, March 10, 2014 6:32 pm
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> These banquet accounts come from Letts, Malcolm (Editor). Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Volume 108 : Travels of Leo of Rozmital through Germany, Flanders, England, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy 1465-1467.
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> Johnnae
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> An account of a banquet following the churching ceremony of Elizabeth, Queen of Edward IV.
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> This would be sometime after the Princess Elizabeth's birth in February 1465.
> After the church ceremony, there were two banquets. The first was for the king and his company.
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> The Queen and the ladies attending upon her dined in a separate chamber. 
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> "The Queen sat alone at table on a costly golden chair. 
> The Queen's mother and the King's sister had to stand some distance away. 
> When the Queen spoke with her mother or the King's sister, they knelt down before her until she had drunk water. 
> Not until the first dish was set before the Queen could the Queen's mother and the King's sister be seated. The ladies and maidens and all who served the Queen at table were all of noble birth and had to kneel so long as the Queen was eating. The meal lasted for three hours. The food which was served to the Queen, the Queen's mother, the King's sister and the others was most costly. 
> Much might be written of it. Everyone was silent
>  and not a word was spoken. 
> 
> My lord and his attendants stood the whole time in the alcove and looked on."
> 
> The account is by Jaroslav Lev of Rosental and Blatna (Czech Jaroslav Lev z Rožmitálu a na Blatné) (born c. 1425; died 23 October 1486). He was a Bohemian nobleman from the House of Lev of Rožmitál.
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> Letts, Malcolm (Editor). Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Volume 108 : Travels of Leo of Rozmital through Germany, Flanders, England, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy 1465-1467.
> London, GBR: Hakluyt Society, 2010. p 47.
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> The  diplomatic party stopped in Flanders and treated to this banquet in 1466.
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> "As the Duke was served at table and the most noble princes and lords at side-tables, so my lord was served in the same manner.
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> My lord and his honourable company ate alone in the Duke's chamber and no one sat with them. A costly side-table had been set up overflowing with countless costly vessels and other things impossible to describe. There were thirty-two dishes with the most sumptuous food, eight of which were served together, and as for drink one can imagine that there was enough and to spare. When my lord had eaten, the other lords led him again to the Duke. He dispatched him first with attendants to see his zoological garden," 
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> Letts, Malcolm (Editor). Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Volume 108 : Travels of Leo of Rozmital through Germany, Flanders, England, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy 1465-1467.
> London, GBR: Hakluyt Society, 2010. p 27.
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