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

[Susan Lin]

We'll, if everyone is busy eating yummy food the normal din might dissipate
for a time but I agree, silent eating in the SCA--not likely.

Shoshanah

On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Daniel Myers <dmyers at medievalcookery.com> wrote:

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> "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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> > -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com <javascript:;>>
> > Date: Mon, March 10, 2014 6:32 pm
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Johnnae
> >
> > An account of a banquet following the churching ceremony of Elizabeth,
> Queen of Edward IV.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > The Queen and the ladies attending upon her dined in a separate chamber.
> >
> > "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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > -------
> > The  diplomatic party stopped in Flanders and treated to this banquet in
> 1466.
> >
> > "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.
> >
> > 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,"
> >
> >
> > 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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