[MR] Stefan's Florilegium files for April

[Olwen the Odd]

Greetings to the Gentles of the Known World,

Here is a copy of my Florilegium article for April, detailing what is new in 
the Florilegium for this month.

If you are the chronicler of a local newsletter and would like to get a copy 
of this article several weeks in advance so that you can have time to meet 
your publishing deadlines, please email me and send me your regular and SCA 
name, your group and its location, your publication name and the email which 
you would like me to send the article to. If you run an SCA-oriented 
website, I also have a version of this article formatted for web use.

This message should be going all kingdom mail lists, either directly or 
through a representative who forwards it for me. If you don't see it on a 
kingdom mail list, and yet see it on another kingdom's list, please contact 
me.

Stefan

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A Blending of the Past and Present

Over the past fifteen years in an ongoing effort, I have been collecting 
bits of useful information from various newsgroups, mail lists and articles 
submitted to me by their authors. In order to make this information 
available to others, I have placed this information in a series of files I 
call Stefan's Florilegium.

The Florilegium is on the web at: http://www.florilegium.org

I am always interested in new articles. If you have written an article that 
would be of interest to others in the SCA, please send it to me for possible 
inclusion in the Florilegium. Contact me for more details.

I am also interested in volunteers who might be interested in helping me 
maintain the Florilegium. Everything from collecting materials, editing and 
web work is needed. Again, please contact me for more details.

For those who would like to help support the Florilegium project in another 
way, I have added a PayPal donation button on the top page of the site. Any 
donations, while not tax deductible, do help pay the overhead costs of 
keeping the site running.

     THLord Stefan li Rous   Ansteorra    stefan at florilegium.org

Here are the new files for this month:
In the ANIMALS section:
   hounds-lnks          Links to information on medieval hound dogs
                           by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
In the CLOTHING section:
   smptuary-laws-lnks   Links to info on medieval sumptuary laws
                           by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
In the FEASTS section:
   Medievl-Feasts-art   "The Medieval Feast - An Event, Not Food"
                           by Mistress Willow de Wisp.
In the FOOD section:
   About-Cheese-art     "About Cheese" A tranlation by Aelianora de
                           Wintringham of a 1556 letter on Swiss
                           cheese and dairy products.
In the PERFORMANCE ARTS section:
   Entrtng-n-SCA-art    "Entertaining in the SCA: a short essay"
                           by Baron Hrolf Herjolfssen.
In the PERSONAS section:
   Barbrn-Persona-art   "Barbarian Personae" by Baron Hrolf Herjolfssen.
   Persona-CMA-art      "Persona in the Current Middle Ages;
                           Guidelines to persona play"
                           by Mistress Willow de Wisp.
In the PLANTS, HERBS AND SPICES section:
   hemp-nettle-art      "Two Food/Fiber/Medical plants in use in
                           Eastern Europe" by Jadwiga Zajaczkowa.
In the SCRIBAL ARTS section:
   p-graffiti-lnks      Links to medieval graffiti and marginalia
                           by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.

Here are just a some of the updated files, usually those with the largest 
amounts of new material:
   artichokes-msg       Period artichokes. Recipes. Cardoons.
   chairs-msg           Medieval and SCA chairs.
   compost-msg          A pickled food of fruits and vegetables.
   cook-ovr-fire-msg    Cooking over open fires. Outdoor feasts.
   dayboards-msg        SCA dayboards, middle-of-the-day meals.
   fd-decoratng-msg     Decorating and presenting period foods.
   lamps-msg            Medieval lamps and lamps for SCA use.
   p-petroleum-msg      Period use of petroleum. Crude oil.
   p-songs-msg          Period songs and song lyrics.
   peppers-msg          The introduction of peppers to Europe.
   root-veg-msg         Medieval and period root vegetables.
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Copyright 2005, Mark S. Harris.
Permission to reprint in SCA-related publications is hereby granted if the 
contents are left unchanged and the author is notified of the publication. 
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
   Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****