[MR] Stefan's Florilegium files for Feb

[Olwen the Odd]

Greetings to the Gentles of the Known World,

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

I always welcome comments and suggestions, as well as criticisms. I am 
constantly trying to improve and add to the Florilegium, so it helps to know 
what you find useful and what you don't.

I am always looking for new material suitable for the Florilegium. This 
could be an article on an SCA or medieval subject which you've written for a 
local newsletter or even A&S documentation or a class handout which will 
stand alone without the A&S object or the class. My standard policy is to 
take updates, so you can always replace these with a more standard article 
in the future. In the meantime, people can be making use of what you have 
learned.

I plan to attend the Gulf Wars event again in March. If you are going to be 
there and would like to come by to give me your comments about the 
Florilegium or just to chat, please do so. I will be staying with my home 
group, the Barony of Bryn Gwlad, who are usually camped across from the 
Ansteorra gate.

Thanks,
  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

One of my prime concerns currently is to update all files to the new format 
which includes several new features such as making links "pickable" and some 
  disguising of all email addresses to make it harder for the spammer's 
programs to harvest email addresses from this site. Yes, I am modifying all 
1800+ files as fast as I can. This  means that while I will continue to add 
new files each month, the usual amount will be reduced. However, as I update 
the files to the new format, I am adding any information I have waiting to 
go in a file, so there will be more updated files

Here are the new files for this month:
In the ACCESSORIES section:
   finger-rings-lnks    Links to information on medieval finger
                           rings by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
In the CLELBRATIONS AND EVENTS section:
   Halloween-lnks       Links to Halloween and its origins
                           by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
   Holiday-Celeb-lnks   Links to medieval holiday celebrations
                           by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
In the FEASTS section:
   kitchen-knives-msg   Kitchen knives for the modern kitchen and
                           feast preperation, Knife care.
In the FOOD-VEGETABLES section:
   Crdoon-Articke-art   "The cardoon and artichoke in 16th century
                           Italian cooking" by Mistress Helewyse de 
Birkestad.

Here are just a some of the updated files, usually those with the largest 
amounts of new material:
   clotted-cream-msg    Clotted cream products. Devonshire cream.
   dumplings-msg        Period dumplings. Spetzle. Recipes.
   dyeing-msg           Dyeing techniques and discussion.
   food-gifts-msg       Period food items that make good gifts.
   frittours-msg        Period fried breaded foods. Recipes.
   grape-leaves-msg     Use of grape leaves in cooking. Sources.
   linen-msg            Period and modern linen cloth. Sources. Care
   monks-msg            Medieval monks and orders. Monk's clothing.
   mustard-msg          Mustard seed in period. sauces. recipes.
   pilgrm-badges-msg    Medieval pilgrim badges. References.
   soup-msg             Medieval soups. Cooking soups at events. recipes.
   verjuice-msg         Medieval verjuice. Modern substitutions.
   vinegar-msg          Vinegar in period. Making vinegar.
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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 ****