Activities through 12-6-20

Extra things happened this week. Maybe we’re starting to settle into “winter”? It doesn’t feel like it with no feasts…. kinda like there was no summer because there were no tourneys.

We have a lot of plant tending to do this week and some cookery. We’ll be glad when we can get in-person things going again.

The veg ends are on a 5 o’clock line from the center. Previous celery and garlic around the pot with lily, rose, chives and thyme… and that *might* be a saffron at 4 o’clock….

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/

Educational Events
- A Master List for finding classes, webinars and other things – https://moas.eastkingdom.org/list-of-online-webinars/?fbclid=IwAR20OE8b6vvYKvmwrqwpule27szarZ7EPV-8R72F1eV2CxcdmOXQhZf9ayk
- Collegium 11/14 – https://antir.org/events/kingdom-collegium/
- Northshield’s Online SUN! November 13-15th, 2020 (Stellar University of Northshield) https://sites.google.com/view/northshieldsun

Classes –

HistoryWorks – Michael Wood’s Story Of England: Episode 1 – The Romans To Normans – •Jun 24, 2020 – The History Of Kibworth’s First 1,000 Years, With A Roman Villa, Anglo Saxons And Vikings.

Medieval Mayhem – How to Make a Gokstad Bed (Viking DIY)

EarlySweden – Online Class: Basic Nalbinding with HL Eilidh Keldeleth

Early Week – Not much going. Put away some more of the feast dishes.

Cookery – Mostly happened on Thursday and Sunday. Anja was making chicken and dumplings with a period recipe for the dumplings, and also got some custard tarts made.

Fogones en la Historia – Pastelillos de queso – Cheesecakes

Nick Saint-Erne – Capon in Orange Sauce

Lynne Fairchild – A Brief History on Pastry Molds | Springerle, Lebkuchen, and More!

Beefing up Medieval Europeans: Meat Consumption in the 15th Century – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/11/medieval-europeans-meat-consumption/

A 13th-century Scandinavian cookbook: Libellus de arte coquinaria – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/11/13th-century-scandinavian-cookbook/

Gilly Morley – A quiddony of medlars

Robert Morris

All at sea. – Cooking puddings in a full sized replica of the cauldrons on the Mary Rose [sank 1545].

All at sea. – The front of the cauldron reconstruction.

Sewing – Just some more embroidery, although dolls are being working on as far as patterns go.

Snip case in process

A frustration-inspired blackwork pattern. Please credit if you use it!

Herb Bunch – A lot of watering happened and on Sunday some veg ends from the cooking got planted.

The big fennel pot with regrowing leeks. The leeks are more blue, fennel more yellow and a stray fern leaf has wandered in there, too.

More stray fern leaves over the pot of sorrel…. which has some garlic planted around the edge.

Project Day – Loren and Anja spent most of the day cooking and working on cleaning up from cooking. 🙂 We started with doing up a batch of custard tarts and some nibbles from the left-over dough. Later Anja was doing chicken and dumplings with pekanky, which are a period-style Czech dumpling.

Arlys said she forgot about project day and Rosamonde was cleaning, but planning a cake for later.

Estella wrote – “My project today. Eating the rest of the Thanksgiving salmon [frozen from CHILE!!]. Simple “I’m hungry NOW” style~ using copper-clad stainless fish pan that neighbor Helen left to me, gently saute in butter, add a little lemon juice >> onto seasoned rice. My favourite knife is at least 50 years old, and was made by my friend, Helen, who passed away the day Hillary lost the election. The cup is an old Downtown-Deb Dead-Air KLCC cup. I’ve used it every morning I’ve been home for over 20 years.”

Some veg ends got planted late. Isabeau says she was running around all day.

Miscellaneous pix

Helen BC is at Národní Hřebčín Kladruby – Kladruby nad Labem, Czech Republic Emperors and Kings horses …. Kladruber horse breed is one of the world’s oldest horse breeds and the oldest Czech breed. The Kladruber Horse is a very rare domestic horse that originated in the Czech Republic and is the only indigenous horse breed of the country. Breeding was established in 1579, when Emperor Rudolph II promoted the original horse enclosure to an imperial court horse breeding farm. Height/Size 15.3 to 16.3 hands (63 to 67 in) (adult) (rarely 17 hands) Weight Heavy; 600 kg (average) Common Uses Jumping, dressage, eventing, endurance

Historical Italian Cooking / Cucina Italiana Storica – How ancient Roman prepared one of their most important foods, cheese, eaten every day, from breakfast to the end of the meals, with our translation of a few passages from Columella’s De Re Rustica. You find our new article on Patreon, in addition to others dedicated to historical foods and translations of cookbooks and dietetic sources. https://www.patreon.com/historicalitaliancooking Come gli antichi Romani preparavano uno dei loro cibi più importanti, il formaggio, consumato ogni giorno, dalla colazione al termine del pasto, con la nostra traduzione di alcuni passaggi dal De Re Rustica di Columella. Trovate il nostro nuovo articolo su Patreon insieme ad altri dedicati ai cibi storici e a traduzioni di fonti culinarie e dietetiche. Image: fresh cheese from a 14th-century Tacuinum Sanitatis

Merry Christmas from DGB Conservation Studio by Dana & Marie – From – https://calendar.myadvent.net/?id=e9c4682fec304b6e770a7fee780eb0a9&fbclid=IwAR2xIeT7WIyFNVS9Rf5-5wAFKg7jd98Q-VtPLteKiklKuYYIZ7aQ8AR7L98

12/1 – Welcome to Dana & Marie’s 2020 Advent Calendar – our 1st of what we hope to become a traditional celebration of our previous years work !! We hope you enjoy seeing behind the scenes of some of our favourite recent conservation projects… starting with this Anglo-Saxon comb excavated in Kent by SWAT Archaeology: mid treatment (it came in a block of soil and we’ve cleaned one side and turned it over)

12/2 – During Survey work at Folkestone Museum, we were excited to see what X-raying these unidentifiable Anglo-Saxon items revealed – later this month you’ll see how cleaning these fragile items turned out. For more into on Anglo-Saxon Folkestone – check out this great new learning resource: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xdcnpMPpcsrib-IEzGpZCqKujvUKSfDh/view?fbclid=IwAR3xpBbSvn8D_Tp-wVYbEytpOo86FJ1F8IztzuqvdtfGqjcV9ArujSPyjuQ

12/3 – Experiments in the sunshine: making ancient green pigments: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10156849399726320&set=pcb.10156849424336320

12/4 – Actually not Covid-19 related… but perhaps our new qualification as mask face fit testers has even wider use than we originally planned !! More about this project that has us suited up to protect against lead dust behind coming windows – also, on our recently launched website !! – http://www.dgbconservation.com

12/5 – Time to reveal where this star 3/4 cleaned Anglo-Saxon Brooch came from – A Canterbury Archaeological Trust excavation at Canturbury Christchurch University. Here’s a link to learn more about it. https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/news/news.aspx?id=818ef201-5c7f-4c8c-8886-296d4833b9a4Huge thanks to Dr. Andrew Richardson at CAT for letting us work on and celebrate this brooch !!

12/6 – We are so excited with our early Christmas present – a Mantis Elite Microscope, woo-hoo – stereo vision without the eyepieces !!Our first project to put it to use on are axes from a Bronze Age hoard. See https://bronzeagehoards.com for more info about the project. There is a fun advent calendar associated with the project as well. 🙂

Historical Textiles – https://historicaltextiles.org/advent-calendar-december-1-2020/?fbclid=IwAR0mT0x7ZHAhN-vc9RXSdG7AyLRmQKb6Gma6vs_UaVI2cf6SV3G5tpubKXo

12/1 – The peacock on the Masku coverlet, Finland. Intarsia technique. Wool fabric in green ( now with a blue tint since the yellow dyestuff have faded), dark blue, white and red. Also thin cotton or linen fabrics as decoration on the top of the antennas. The silvred/gilded leather have fallen off in the majority of places. The stitching shows where they were placed. The coverlet is in the collections of the National Museum of Finland. Dated to 15th century. / Amica and Maria

12/2 – Today we present an amazing find. The Grödinge double weave. The weave is woven in dark blue and white wool thread.Here a detail of the boarder. Wyverns.The weave is dated to late 15th century. Now in the collections of the Swedish History museum./ Amica and MariaIf sharing photos: please cred us.

12/3 – Behind door number 3 we find a Viking age posament from Birka, Sweden. The metal wire is made out of silver and the core is a textile fibre. We don’t know if the textile fiber is made out of silk or linen. Today the posament can be found in the collections of The Swedish History museum.

12/4 – Todays post is two painted saints on an antependium. Paint on a plain weave, linen. Dated to the second half of the 15th century. The antependium can be found in the collections of The Swedish History Museum.

12/5 – Today we would like to present an altar cloth woven in brocaded on the counted thread. The tablet woven band sewn to the edge is woven with 2 plied linen thread in the warp. 6 tablets set in VVV. Dated to the 15th century. Today in the collections of The Swedish History museum. / Amica & Maria more pix on the site!)

12/5 – Today we would like to present an altar cloth woven in brocaded on the counted thread. Woven in linen. The pattern is today very white, but have a tiny, tiny, blue tint. It is possibly that the pattern originally was dyed blue. Dated to the 15th century. Today in the collections of The Swedish History museum. / Amica & Maria more pix on the site!)

Today we take a turn to the State Archive in Gent. It’s a document, with lovely green silk ribbons connected to the document. It’s rare to have exact dating on historical textiles and here we have a document dated to one single day. That is so awesome!!! 3 December 1339 Since we don’t know what the document was about we asked a friend that translated the museum text for us. Here is a summary: “This “oorkonde” is about an alliance between Vlaanderen (Flanders) en Brabant to secure the trade of wool (I suppose from England) Jacob encouraged other duchess and dukes to do the same. So basically an other act in the 100 year war between France en England. Jacob is murdered and has a statue on the Friday market in Gent. A “oorkonde” is an official document normally with seals on it. They should be at the bottom of the document attached to a ribbon. From 1600 the seals made way for autographs or signatures The “lakennijverheid” is a trade of cloth makers and of huge economical interest in Gent (whole of Flanders really)” An important document with costly silk. Woven in plain weave. Possibly in a rigid heddle. / Amica & Maria (I brightened the pic. There are more on their website!)

Music

Christmas in the Middle Ages

Ensemble: Für Frühe Musik Augsburg Album: Weihnachten im Mittelalter – Christmas in the Middle Ages Video: Manuscript “Horae ad usum Parisiensem ou Petites heures” – http://www.facebook.com/musicamedievale •

Alle (Psalite Cum) luya
Laetabundus Exsultet Fidelis Chorus – Bernhard von Clairvaux
Rorate Celi Desuper
Et In Terra Pax
Dieus Soit En Cheste Maison – Adam De La Halle
Vetus Abit Littera
Benedicamus Domino
Nunc Angelorum Gloria
Verbum Patris Humanatur
Kyrieleyson de S. Maria V.
Gaudeat Ecclesia
1. Malestas Delca
In Suria Ein Braiten Hall – Oswald von Wolkenstein
Alleluya
Sys Willekommen Heirre Kerst
Ave Mutter Kuniginne – Oswald von Wolkenstein
Ave Mater O Maria – Oswald von Wolkenstein
Fiddle, Lyre, Recorder, Dulcimer, Hurdy Gurdy – Heinz Schwamm Organ, Shawm [Bass Shawm], Percussion – Wolfgang Zahn
Vocals, Chitarrone [Chitarra Sarazenica],
Lute [Medieval Lute], Oud [Arabian Oud] – Rainer Herpichböhm
Vocals, Recorder – Sabine Lutzenberger
Vocals, Recorder, Percussion – Hans Ganser

…and a bonus. Estella and I love this one… Here’s a 17th century Moravian Carol that feels older because of the mode it’s written in. It’s a long story about the “Miracle of the Waters”. Mary and Elizabeth meet on the snowy path to the church. Elizabeth scolds Mary, that she shouldn’t be stressing herself when she’s so close to giving birth. She helps her with the birth with John close by, and then they go to bathe the child and all the springs are frozen. It isn’t until Mary goes to the spring herself that the waters suddenly thaw and according to the story, they run clear to this day, even in the worst weather. The illustrations are by Josef Lada, a famous Czech artist of this past century. (Yes, Stella, this doesn’t match up with the lyrics… it’s the older version of the story.)

…and maybe this will come through… Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as a Gregorian Chant!

Links

Viking Woman’s Grave discovered in Norway – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/11/viking-womans-grave-norway/
Justinian’s Plague and the Birth of the Medieval World – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/11/justinian-plague-medieval-world/
A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/11/medieval-fairy-tales/
Sustainable and Innovative: The Medieval Art of Fishing – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/11/medieval-fishing/
Medieval Manuscripts: Cartography, Diplomacy and Espionage in the Atlas Miller – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/11/medieval-manuscripts-altas-miller/
Podcast – The kingdom of Rus’ and medieval Europe, with Christian Raffensperger – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/11/kingdom-rus-christian-raffensperger/
The story of John of Luxembourg , Bohemia’s ‘foreigner king’ – https://english.radio.cz/story-john-luxemburg-bohemias-foreigner-king-8701987?fbclid=IwAR1boHax1xfxbv6OY8UzaVPxN04p4CG6PTwBCPNMTUP8qUUs_So1sXwYjoE
Charles IV: legendary ruler or pragmatist and spin doctor? – https://english.radio.cz/charles-iv-legendary-ruler-or-pragmatist-and-spin-doctor-8225880
Říp (pronounced “zheep”– Mythical mountain of the Czechs – https://english.radio.cz/rip-mythical-mountain-czechs-8701713

Video Links

vikinghomecompanion – It Ain’t All Fun And Lutefisk

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

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