[MR] Stefan's Florilegium article for December

[Olwen the Odd]

A Happy Yule Season to everyone!

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

If you are looking for gift ideas for someone with medieval interests  or 
you yourself have friends or family who might like to get you  something but 
they have no idea what might be good, there are a  number of files in the 
Florilegium that have lists of gift ideas.

There are also a number of files in the Florilegium on Yule  activities as 
well as food and drink ideas which would be appropriate  for Yule Revels and 
even modern Yule parties and pot lucks.

If you have found the Florilegium useful or interesting, you might  also 
want to consider making a donation using the donation button on  the top 
page of the site this holiday season to help keep the  Florilegium running. 
There are ongoing overhead expenses in keeping  such a site running and 
since I've been unemployed since last May,  any amount helps.

Thanks,
Stefan
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A Blending of the Past and Present

Over the past sixteen 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.  As I was laid off in  May, any amount would help 
me keep this site going.

     THLord Stefan li Rous   Ansteorra    stefan at florilegium.org

Here are the new files for this month:
In the COMMERCE section:
   p-markets-msg        Medieval markets.
In the ENTERTAINMENT section:
   Marbles-art          “Marbles” by THL Dagonell Collingwood of
                           Emerald Lake.
In the FEASTS section:
   Camp-Dinner-art      A small camp dinner of period foods for 7
                           people by Mistress Elaine de Montgris
                           (known as 'Lainie).
In the FOOD section:
   Medicinal-Fds-art    "Medicinal Foods of the Middle Ages" by
                            Marija and Petr Kotok.
In the FOOD-BY-REGION section:
   NW-Fds-Italy-art     “A time for change: new world foods in old
                           world menus”, by Mistress Helewyse de
                           Birkestad.
In the FOOD-SWEETS section:
   Bakng-w-Sugar-art    “Baking with Sugar in Renaissance Germany”
                           by Lord Giano Balestriere.
In the RELIGION section:
   Lent-msg             Medieval Lenten practices and restrictions.
   Saints-Lives-art     “The Role of Hagiography in the Conversion
                           of Western Europe” by Herr Detlef von  Marburg.
In the SCA-STORIES section:
   Gleann-Abhann-art    The birth of the Kingdom of Gleann Abhann
                           amid Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by
                           Vallawulf Rurikson.

Here are some of the updated files.
   brewing-msg          General brewing info and sources.
   canning-msg          Use of canning in the SCA. Directions.
   cheese-goo-msg       Digby's Savory Tosted cheese. melted cheese.
   children-msg         Children in the SCA and period.
   cook-ovr-fire-msg    Cooking over open fires. Outdoor feasts.
   ironing-msg          Medieval ironing of clothes. Ironing tools.
   meatballs-msg        Period dishes with meatballs.
   stockfish-msg        Period preserved fish. Dried, smoked and
                           salted fish. Recipes.
   sumac-msg            Period uses of sumac. Identifying it.
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Copyright 2006, 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. 
Notification may be by email and reformatting is allowed.

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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 ****

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