[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 detailing what is new in the  
Florilegium for April.

If you or someone you know has written a good article on any aspect  of the 
Middle Ages or life in the SCA, please send a copy to me for  possible 
inclusion in the Florilegium. The copyright remains with the  author and I 
will take updates or removal requests at any time.

I am also looking for volunteers to help me save and edit the best  
information that gets posted to the hundreds of public medieval mail  lists. 
It is impossible for me to keep up more than a few and there  is a lot of 
good, useful info that is posted out there. It is a shame  that it gets seen 
by only the few people on those lists at that time.  I'd like this wonderful 
information available to more people.

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.

     THLord Stefan li Rous   Ansteorra    stefan at florilegium.org

Here are the new files for this month:
In the CULTURES section:
   Africa-lnks          Links to info on medieval Africa by Dame
                           Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
In the ENTERTAINMENT section:
   Knucklebones-art     “Knucklebones” by THL Dagonell Collingwood
                           of Emerald Lake.
In the FEASTS section:
   Danelaw-feast-art    A 9th Century Anglo-Saxon feast served at
                           the SCA's Market Day at Jorvik event.
In the HOME, SWEET HOME section:
   torches-msg          Medieval torches.
In the PERFORMANCE-ARTS section:
   The-Fool-n-SP-art    "The Historical Fool in Shakespeare's King
                           Lear" by Lady Eleanor Cleavely.

Here are some of the updated files.
   baked-cheese-msg     Period baked cheese dishes.
   flour-msg            Types of flour. Sources. Period flour.
   galangale-msg        Period use of the spice galangale.
   marshmallows-msg     The original marshmallow treats, made from
                           the Marsh Mallow plant.
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Copyright 2007, 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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