Activities through 12-27-20

Some weeks fly past, often because of holidays that eat most of the time. Yeah, this week…. There are lots of links below and folks were busy on Project Day, but that’s the most of it. Hey, I managed a report this week!

Gudrun checked in this week. She’s getting a 3D printer and wanted to know if there are things we’d like that she can do with it?

Also heard from Gogor, Sasha and Amor, mostly holiday wishes.

Ancient Light has closed for the month because of the virus, so you *might* hear about various projects getting kicked farther down the road, but a lot of what we’ve planned is cleaning and sorting. We’ll keep holding Virtual Project Days and Potlucks for the month of January.

Hoping that everyone had a good holiday (whichever one/s you celebrate) and will have a happy, prosperous and *healthy* 2021!

All meetings are on hold for the moment, although Project Day and the Monthly Potluck are being held in the Virtual Realm. We’re also doing mini-potlucks, just Anja & Loren and one other “pod” at a time. Let us know if you’re interested!

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Virtual Potluck – 10/18
No Winter Feast in 2021. We’ll revisit for one in 2022 next spring.

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here: https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and new one here: https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

William Shakespeare’s Christmas Carol – David Sharpe – The An Tir players to beg your permission to amuse and entertain you all, with our wee shadows upon the stage

12th Night! – https://events.antir.org/kingdom-events/12th-night/12th-night-2021/

Educational Events

A Master List for finding classes, webinars and other things – https://moas.eastkingdom.org/list-of-online-webinars/?fbclid=IwAR20OE8b6vvYKvmwrqwpule27szarZ7EPV-8R72F1eV2CxcdmOXQhZf9ayk
36th Annual Clothiers Seminar, February 6, 2021 – https://shirecai.calontir.org/clothiers2021/
Service Symposium – Brought to you by those who DO and currently have time to TEACH – February 13-14, 2021 – https://sites.google.com/westkingdom.org/servicesymposium2021/home
Known World Science Symposium – JUN 25, 2021 AT 8 AM PDT – JUN 27, 2021 AT 11 AM PDT – Barony of Gryphon’s Lair – https://www.facebook.com/events/456485881710498/

Classes –

Royal University of the Midrealm – RUM – (more vids here: https://www.youtube.com/c/RoyalUniversityoftheMidrealmRUM/videos)

Flying Chariots & Dragon Kings: The Chess of Medieval Japan

Unmaking a Boar – Duchess Vukasin discusses the manner in which a boar would have been butchered in the middle ages. She also presents several videos of her butchering work after boar hunts, describing the portions of the process that are shown in the videos.

Child’s Play: Easy Children’s Games and Toys – Dame Elizabethe Alles discusses some medieval toys that can be found or made today. The handout for this class can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qu6S…

Elewys of Finchingefeld – Mammen 10th Century

Modern History TV – Why was this type of armour in use for so long? – Jason Kingsley, the Modern Knight, investigates an item of armour that, arguably, was in continuous use for almost 2000 years. What is it and why?

Early Week – There wasn’t much going except preparing for the holiday. That meant some cookery, but also finding and packing things for Loren’s and my kids.

Cookery – This week was all marzipan and fudge and ham and devilled eggs, plus various vegetables.

Hope made a mulling spice mix and asked for input. – cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom seeds, marjoram and whole cloves

Helen said on Sunday, “I’m going off to make leek soup to go with the seed nut bread and cheese for dinner…” Oh, that sounds so tasty!

Christmas and Food in the Middle Ages – https://www.medievalists.net/2019/12/christmas-food-middle-ages/

Ypocras and Clareya – 15th-century Mulled Wines – https://historicalitaliancooking.home.blog/english/recipes/ypocras-and-clareya-15th-century-mulled-wines/

Fogones en la Historia – Endulzando la Navidad – Sweetening Christmas – Today we bring 3 recipes for sweets, widely consumed in the 16th century: – White delicacy – Cooked marzipan – Mexido eggs

Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii – https://www.reuters.com/article/italy-pompeii-idUSKBN2900D3

Some adapted medieval recipes – https://www.manuscriptcookbookssurvey.org/adapted_recipes/some-medieval-english-recipes/

Tasting History with Max Miller – Eggnog: A Christmas History

Royal University of the Midrealm – RUM – Feast Horror Stories And What to Learn From Them

Sewing – Just embroidery, although we’ve gotten more of the pouch frames. (Pix next week)

Lynne Fairchild – EASY Step by Step Bocksten Bog Man Side Opening Medieval Wool Cloak

Project Day –

Anja posted, “Sorry I’m late! I was in back setting up some bread and getting the bones ready to boil some more.
<later> Totally bollixed the bread, burned it to inedibility. <sigh>
Arlys – – Um…whose??? … Whose bones? Should we be looking for anyone in particular?
Anja –<giggle> These are the lamb and beef bones from last week. They’re being de-greased, after being brothed. They’ll have to be boiled once more for sterilizing after drying.

Peggy posted later that she got called into work and was exhausted.

Helen posted, “I’m making a 1960 peasant blouse for daughter
Anja – Just cut and sew, or are you doing any embellishment?
Helen – I embroidered daisies on it
Helen – Also just made that viking seed bread to have with cheese later tonight
Its 5 eggs 1/2 cup of oil and seeds and nuts
So good toasted with cheese
Anja – Sounds like it should be. We’ve mostly been adding seeds and things to regular wheat bread.
Helen – I added almonds to this bread…
Anja – Making your own cheese? Or what variety?
Helen – I do make a soft white cream cheese but I’m eating brie today
Anja – Yummm…..

Later Isabeau posted, “Not medieval, seasonal project.”

Miscellaneous pix

G.R.H. Routiers – PINI PEANUT -#routiersGotujzKrasnalem Actually seeds of the Pinus pinea variety occurring in the Mediterranean area. They gained popularity with the Arabs. They have spread in Italian, Spanish and Southern France. Used mainly as an addition to sauces, but also as a decoration for dishes. Medicine prescribes them as a cure for cough and lung disease. We recommend the nut bread recipe: https://grhroutiers.wixsite.com/blog/post/chleb-orzechowy —– The icon. Pinnuts, Tacuinum Sanitatis 14th

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Merry Christmas from DGB Conservation Studio by Dana & Marie –

12/21 – This pig jaw emerged from the block on the left from day 15… we lifted the remains of a wooden lining of a grave in sections – the sides had collapsed on top of what had been an offering of a pigs head – this was a surprise, as it didn’t show up in the X-ray of the block because bone and soil and plaster were too similar in density to be distinguished. More info on pork in Roman burials and other contexts: https://www.thecolchesterarchaeologist.co.uk/?p=34289Dec. 17th-23rd is the Roman festival of Saturnalia, so “io io io Saturnalia” !! For more info on this, check out: https://medium.com/@MuseumHack/remembering-saturnalia-the-badass-ancient-roman-precursor-to-christmas-c7a84b7737bc

12/22 – Continuing with our Saturnalia celebrations of Romano British block lifted burial finds… here are some of the mysterious discoveries we came across while micro-excavating a large block from SWAT’s excavation at Aylesham, Kent. (The archaeological work is being funded by Persimmons and Barratts, ahead of their housing development.) We lifted the block because there was evidence suggesting complex metal finds, still in-situ, in relation to each other and a large lovely ceramic vessel. Some of our curious micro-discoveries are pink stained cremated bones and tiny pieces of copper alloy strips that seem to have been inlaid into wood – these and more can be seen in our video below. The study of these fascinating discoveries continues into 2021…

12/23 – A favourite zoom meeting with the Finding St. Eanswythe Team – here we were discussing next steps and starting a fundraising campaign for making the niche safe, with a new reliquary for St. Eanswythe’s bones and telling her story to future visitors.For more info and photos from our investigations:https://www.facebook.com/Anglo-Saxon-CSI-Sittingbourne-247290788632730/photos/pcb.4109682015726902/4109629032398867/

12/24 – We assisted in a research project on medieaval moot horns, by providing X-ray images of some of Kent’s surviving horns, like the Folkstone moot horn here. Big thanks to Chris Spree NDT X-Radiography facility. Dr Louise Bacon summarises her research project on horns: Ten Burghmote or Moot horns still exist, mainly in the towns of the Cinque Ports, the earliest dating from possibly the 13th century. Analysis of the metal has shown them to be either bronze or brass, with a third category of a ternary alloy of copper, tin and zinc. They exhibit a variety of repairs, some botched, some refined, some tantalisingly strange, some to enable playing. All of them are still blown today and one has even had a piece of music written for it. We also X-rayed the Faversham horn for Louise – you can hear it being blown, on the site

12/25 – Around this time last year, there was something amongst a group of ‘Roman Finds’ in Folkstone Museum collections that upon X-raying, turned out to be not Roman at all – it was an WWII anti-aircraft explosive… and it was still ‘live’ !!!The curator reported this to the authorities, and the local police came to our premises (on their last shift before Christmas)… The explosive was left in a hole in the garden overnight (where it was put once we knew what it was)… And the Royal Bomb Squad arrived the next morning – they moved it to the middle of a neighbouring farm field… no photos were allowed of the moment, but Dana was allowed to ‘push the button’ – kaboon !!! – the ultimate in care of collections !! (well, there is no where suitable to store ancient live ammunitions)Thank you for opening our windows and may 2021 indeed bring safety and wellness to all. Happy Holidays !!!

From – https://calendar.myadvent.net/?id=e9c4682fec304b6e770a7fee780eb0a9&fbclid=IwAR2xIeT7WIyFNVS9Rf5-5wAFKg7jd98Q-VtPLteKiklKuYYIZ7aQ8AR7L98

Historical Textiles – Lots more pictures on each days’ posts! Look at the right-hand column to access the rest of the calendar (up to today’s date….) – https://historicaltextiles.org/advent-calendar-december-1-2020/?fbclid=IwAR0mT0x7ZHAhN-vc9RXSdG7AyLRmQKb6Gma6vs_UaVI2cf6SV3G5tpubKXo

12/20 – Today we return to the Grödinge double weave. But today we focus on the animals of the middle section. We got lions, eagles and the animal combined by the two, griffins. At first sight all animals looks the same, but at a closer look, all the animals have some small individual parts. That menas that the pattern have been picked by hand during the weaving. The weave is made out of white and dark blue wool and is dated to the 15th century. Today the double weave can be found in the collections of The Swedish History Museum.

12/21 – Today we would like to raise the idea of a perfect result. That seems to be a fairly modern approach. We see repeatedly during our analyses that the perfect result is a non existing thing during the Middle Ages. This embroidery from Ärentuna is a good example of that. Check out the blue square with the yellow pattern in. During the sewing someone ran out of yellow yarn. And continued with a light orange yarn instead. That someone, was also a bit unfocused and turned one of the wings of the pattern upside down. Misstakes happens all the time when people are doing crafts. But during the Middle Ages people seemed less interested in fixing them. We find this very heartwarming and would like to strike a blow for not correcting things too often. It’s a bit like live TV. Don’t mention it, then the audience will notice it, just move on and everything will be just fine. The embroidery is dated 14-15th century.

12/22 – Fulled fabrics. The fabrics during the Middle Ages were often fulled. When fabrics from that time is found in the ground, the majority of the nap is often gone. That means the fabrics that we find give a different surface then the fabric originally had. Also fabrics other than archaeological, may have lost a lot of its fulled surface. Here we can see some evidence of that.The examples are both from gilded leather coverlets, where the gilded strip ( or a twisted linen strip) has fallen off and exposes a fabric that has significantly more nap than the rest of the fabric.Both fabrics are dated to 15th or 16th century.The first fabric is from the Ilsbo embroidery. Now in Hälsinglands museums collections.

12/22 – The second fabric is from Dalhem II embroidery. Enlarge photo to get a even better view of the nap. Now in the collections of The Swedish History Museum.

12/23 – Today we go Royal with a linen collar with some amazing bobin laces.The owner was King Gustav II Adolf/ Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, He reigned over Sweden between 1611-1632. He was shot and died the 6th of November 1632 in Lützen during the 30 year war.The collar is made out of a very thin and evenly woven plain linen weave. The stitching is to die for!!!The bobin lace is also made out of linen thread, two plied.Today the collar is in the collection of The Royal Armoury, Stockholm. (6 more photos on the page: https://historicaltextiles.org/advent-calendar-december-23-2020/)

12/24 – Today we celebrate Christmas in Sweden. We call it Jul. A name that originate from the tradition we celebrated before people up in the north became Christians.Therefor we would like to share some Viking age things.Wool combs from Norway. Dated 800-950. For combing wool.God Jul! /Amica and Maria (6 more pictures on their page!)

Music – Medieval music to drive the cold Winter away… – Musica Medievale

Ensamble: St. George’s Canzona, Directed by John Sothcott
Album: To drive the cold winter away – A fireside presentation of music for merrymaking down the ages http://www.facebook.com/musicamedievale

Entry Of The Minstrels And Waits:
1 Branle De L’Official (1588)
2 Pavane – ‘Good King Wenceslas’ (1582)

Festivities In The Tavern:
3 The Dressed Ship
4 Staines Morris / Here We Come A-Wassailing (Trad. North Of England)
5 Green Garters
6 Fandango

A Medieval Holiday:
7 Edi Beo Thu (English 12th Century)
8 Salterello (Italian 14th Century)
9 Alle (Psallite Cum) Luya (French 13th Century)
10 Rosa Das Rosas (Galician 13th Century – Cantigas Of King Alphonso The Wise)
11 Ductia (English 13th Century)
12 As I Lay (English 15th Century)
13 La Manfredina (Italian 14th Century)

Festivities At The Manor:
14 Fanfare Written-By – John Sothcott
15 All Hail To The Days (To Drive The Cold Winter Away) – (Trad. Tune) Lyrics By – T. Durfey
16 Captain Digorie Piper’s Galliard Written-By – J. Dowland
17 I Saw Three Ships (Trad.)
18 Peasant Dances (Tanz Der Bauern Und Tanz Der Büaerinnen) Written-By – M. Praetorius
19 God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (Trad. London) ‘

To Entertain A King’:
20 Fire Dance (Feuertanz) Written-By – M. Praetorius
21 Stepping Dance (Schreittanz) Written-By – M. Praetorius
22 Windmills (Die Windmühle) Written-By – M. Praetorius
23 Village Dance (Dorftanz) Written-By – M. Praetorius
24 King Of Denmark’s Galliard Written-By – J. Dowland
25 Sailor’s Dance (Schiffertanz) Written-By – M. Praetorius
26 Fishermen’s Dance (Tanz Der Fischer) Written-By – M. Praetorius
27 Festive March (Aufmarsch) Written-By – M. Praetorius

Baritone Vocals, Percussion, Bells – Ray Attfield
Citole, Gittern, Lute, Percussion – John Grubb
Coordinator – Roy Carter
Cornett [Cornette], Recorder, Snare [Pipe And Tabor], Crumhorn, Dulcian [Curtal], Percussion – Michael Oxenham
Design – Bob Fell
Directed By, Arranged By, Recorder, Rauschpfeife, Citole, Rebec, Vielle – John Sothcott
Engineer [Balance Engineer] – Bob Auger
Performer – St. George’s Canzona
Producer, Recorder, Gittern, Rebec, Fiddle [Medieval], Percussion – Francis Grubb
Rebec – John White
Rebec, Countertenor Vocals – Derek Harrison
Recorder, Crumhorn, Percussion – John Lawes
Recorder, Crumhorn, Shawm – Leila Ward
Soprano Vocals [High Soprano] – Rosemary Harrison
Soprano Vocals [Low Soprano] – Mary Sothcott

Early Music in a different way 😉 – M. Praetorius (1571-1621) – Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Crumhorn and Viol Consort) – CHRISTMAS CAROL – Premiered Dec 24, 2020

Links

Sveyn Forkbeard – https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Sweyn-Forkbeard/ – …and comments –
Peggy Vlach – This is the traditional story…..I have heard that Sven Forkbeard was pagan, not Christian, partly due to the fact that Harald Bluetooth did not become Christian until late in life…..Also I have heard that although Sven was the son of one of Harald concubines that Harald questioned whether Sven was his son. By the way, in mundane life, my son is a descendant of Harald Bluetooth via one of Harald’s daughters.
Behold the Erdapfel, the World’s Oldest Surviving Globe – It’s got the beauty, but not the brains. – https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/oldest-globe-erdapfel-behaim (links to more info and similar things on the page)
Surviving Winter in the Middle Ages – https://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/surviving-winter-in-the-middle-ages/
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612) manuscript volume of recipes and medical remedies [manuscript]. – http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/metsnav3/general/index.html#mets=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.dlib.indiana.edu%2Fiudl%2Fgeneral%2Fmets%2FVAD5577&page=10

Funnies

Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 146
ASLIV – 227 (included 3 balls) plus 4 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 4 powder fort, 8 cheese spice and 9 powder douce packets, 1 kiss-lock pouch, 9 tiny bobs, 7 pincushions, 3 pins, 3 snip case w/snips, lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 4 small pouches, 12 bookmarkers, 14 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124), 2 emery strawberries, 1 woolen spool-knit cord

Total as a Household = 4058 handed off

In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
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Last updated 12/28/20

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