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Activities through 4-10-22

A very busy week sometimes doesn’t have much to say about it, especially since projects are just getting farther along, rather than finished.

Sounds like Baroness’ War was fun! We’ve been talking to various people about the problems that less-abled SCAdians are having getting to events. Dunno what will shake out with that. Anja missed All Fool’s in Corvaria. Since she’s their Bard for the moment, that’s a problem!

Anja is teaching marzipan at Adiantum’s A&S Night on Tuesday.

Still holding Project Day and Sewing at the shop. Herbs in the Garden is going most Wednesdays, but not this week. It’s going to be too wet!

Project Day is now open for in-person meet-ups as well as in the Virtual Realm! Potluck this month will be Virtual and Real-World! Herbs Workshop and Sewing are ongoing. Masks required. When will the rest of these open up in person? We’ll keep right on with the virtual ones side-by-side with the actual.

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 7am-9pm, doing incense
Herb Workshop, In the Garden – Irregularly scheduled, usually on dry Wednesdays. Please ask to join the facebook chat!
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, 1 to 5pm
Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Potluck – Next Potluck – 4/17, 515, 6/19
Winter Feast LVI, Norse Theme. Page here – https://housecapuchin.com/winter-feast/winter-feast-norse-feast-as-lvi-february-2022/ More pages coming!

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/

Misc –

Last weekend – Pt1 Summits Spring Coronet

Pt2 Summits Spring Coronet

This weekend, Part 1 – Baroness War

Part 2 – Baroness War

The new East Kingdom Crowns

Louis Garcia – Well…now that The Big Project has debuted, it is my pleasure (and relief) to show it to everyone who could not make it to EK Coronation.

This has been the largest, most involved project that I have ever undertaken. They are the Thunder Tyger Crowns of the East, the first Asian kingdom crowns in SCA history (if I am not mistaken). They are based on 12th Century Thai ceremonial crowns and have Chinese and Japanese elements. They were the work of 140+ hours and every skill old and new to make them. I cried when they left my studio.

I thank from the bottom of my heart those that helped in the grunt work of this venture…without them these would not have been possible. To Lord Ubba of Smoking Rocks ( Jason Yeary ), THLady Sisuile Butler ( Kathleen Dimmich Mahaffy ), and Christoff of Swampkeype ( Christopher Nowland )…your help was immeasurable and you are now a part of Society History. I am in your debt.

I am literally crying as I get pictures back from Coronation of Ryouko’jin Of-The Iron-Skies and Indrakshi Aani Aravinda of their new Majesties wearing them. I thank them so much and to the Kingdom for entrusting me with such a fantastic, challenging task.

Brain Weasels quiet…peace and contentment achieved.

I love The East.

Events

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2022 AT 9 AM – 7 PM – Adiantum’s Birthday Bash – 82002 Lost Creek Rd, Dexter, OR 97431-9783, United States
Adiantum’s Baronial Birthday celebration, Archery, Rapier, Cut & Thrust, and Arts & Sciences Championships, Sergentry Trials, and Court. This is a Level 2: Branch Event where no Kingdom or Principality business is expected to be conducted.

APR 22 AT 9 AM – APR 24 AT 3 PM – Bar Gemels – Event by Barony of Terra Pomaria and Lin Dis – Camp Taloali – Bar Gemels will return this year! The tavern is open and will have period games on the tables, musicians playing throughout the hall, a warm fire, and hot food for weary travelers.
The Tavern will provide meals each day for a fee. You may preregister for a meal plan for the weekend for $35. Prices for ala cart meal tickets will be available on the website.
Fighters, both heavy and fencers alike, will be ousted to the field when brawls start to see who will be left standing. The ever-popular Bar Wench Smackdown will occur.
For added fun the thrown weapons range will be and the archery range will be open for you to show your skills.
We will also hold a Silent Auction fundraiser for Camp Taloali, a camp for children who are d/Deaf and or Hard of Hearing community members.
Merchants are welcome for a donation of largess.
Bunks in cabins will be available for a $10 fee.
Please register for RV space in advance. Space is limited.

May 7, 2022. – Known World Italian Symposium – Virtual World event – https://knownworlditalians.org/kwis-2022/
KWIS – https://knownworlditalians.org/?fbclid=IwAR3mu8CcApz5hvZdaxqCfdOvR-kvqXawDhniPVpLhTDO97Ed0ozOMIdhJf0%2F

MAY 27 AT 12 PM – MAY 30 AT 3 PM – Egils 2022 – Adiantum – Event by Barony of Adiantum and Chris Howerton – Lynx Hollow Park
You are invited to join the Barony of Adiantum for a three-day weekend of Medieval Adventure.
Activities to Look forward to:
Heavy Armored combat – Holmgang, Prize Tournaments & Baronial Defender Tournament
Rapier Combat
Cut & Thrust Combat
Bardic Baronial Championship & Performances
Medieval Period Archery Fun Shoots, Competitions & Royal rounds
Thrown Weapons Baronial Championship & Fun Toss
Medieval Court, Pageantry & Ceremony
Norse Trade Blanket
Youth & Family Activities
Medieval Merchants’ Row
Arts & Sciences Village, Full of Classes, Demo’s and Displays

Classes –

The Known Worlde Courtesans Guild just put up 6 new videos – Games, perfumed eggs and more! – https://www.youtube.com/c/KnowneWorldCourtesans/videos

Battle of Hastings, 1066: Analysis of the Norman victory – Medievalists – The Battle of Hastings is one of the most important battles fought in England. Duke William of Normandy defeated King Harold II, ushering in the Norman Conquest. In this episode of Bow and Blade, Kelly DeVries and Michael Livingston analyze the campaign and battle, including how the conflict started, the events of 1066, where the battle took place, and why the Normans were victorious.

How To Make Friends And Not Die In The Medieval Court | How To Get Ahead | Chronicle – Medieval History Documentaries – The medieval court was a cruel place. Stephen Smith is joined by David Tennant to investigate the rules of navigating Richard II’s court. The medieval king presided over the first truly sophisticated and artistic court in England. Painters, sculptors, poets, tailors, weavers and builders flocked to court to make their fortunes. But these were dangerous times. Being close to Richard brought many a courtier to a sticky end.

Early Week – Anja was cooking, more than anything. She made a radish and cheese spread that’s traditional Czech and mentioned in late period manuscripts.

Cookery – Other than the radish spread a big vegetable soup was made this week, and mostly frozen. Sunday evening we tried the Roman eggs.

Sewing – This week was mostly working on the little sacks and the Bartholomew Baby outfits.

Dressing up a middle class lass, circa 1460s – priorattire – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiH7_r6P5Ts

Weave Along with Elewys: Double Face Laurel Leaves Tablet Weaving –

Sundials, etc. –

The book The Glass Beads of Anglo-Saxon England, cAD 400-700. A Preliminary Visual Classification of the More Definitive and Diagnostic Types, by Margaret Guido (1999) is now available for free download at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50361 The 386 page book includes a chapter on the “Technological Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Beads” (raw materials, colorants, archaeological evidence of bead production, etc.), 30+ pages of maps showing where various types of beads were found, color plates of the various bead types, and a 40+ page bibliography, Based in the Netherlands, “OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books. OAPEN operates two platforms, the OAPEN Library and – in partnership with OpenEdition – the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). The OAPEN Library is set up to host and disseminate OA books.”

Make an Anglo-Saxon style Ring Pouch – Sally Pointer – Inspired by ivory ring framed Anglo-Saxon purses from the fifth and sixth centuries, I’m adapting easily available materials to make a useful large belt pouch that will hold all sorts of things when I’m out foraging. This project is less about authenticity of technique and more about practical end results!

Herb Bunch – In the Garden

4/6 – Horseradish is up (right in the center of the garlics

I should know what this is…. but it’s supposed to be a fern….

Still cutting old twigs out of the new oregano

Two peony shoots on either side of bittercress

Kept working on the garden over the next few days.

Peas! Just one up and then the next day, this!

Tiny nasturtium

Regrown celery and turnip on left, lovage and garlic on right

4/7 – This garlic really took off, then was eater down to the ground!!

Last year those chives were two little bulblets that fell off onto the porch from the main batch!

…and on Sunday we started tucking some of the more tender plants under covers because of cold temps rolling in.

Project Day – Not a lot going. Cleaning up ready for marzipan on Monday… a little sewing at my desk. Talked to a newer person from Adiantum who is just learning about how the SCA ticks. She’s going to try to come out for a blackwork lesson at some point.

Feast Planning

The poll is still up and we contacted a few people who aren’t on Facebook The two who replied both voted “norse repeat”. Totals so far.

What should we do for Winter Feast 2023?
Repeat Norse – 8 votes
Something different – 2 votes
Not bother – 1 vote
Repeat German Renn – 0 votes
Italian – 0 votes

Recipes

Anjas Radish and Cheese Spread Recipe – usually makes two 1-cup jars

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup cream cheese
1 cup radishes (measure after chopping)
1 Tbsp. chives
Salt to taste

Directions

In a food processor….Process radishes until the largest piece is no more than 1/8 inch thick by ½ inch long
Add butter and cheese. Mix
Add chives (etc.) and salt and process.
Fridge for 24 hours
Serve on various bread or crackers.

Radishes… that’s a quart jar…. honking big ones!

…and my sandwich with some lovely greens from the garden.

Roman Medium-Boiled Eggs in a Pine Nut Sauce – In Ancient Rome eggs were eaten as an appetizer.

Ingredients

4 medium-boiled eggs
2 oz. pine nuts
3 Tbs. vinegar
1 tsp. honey
A pinch of fresh ground black pepper
A pinch of fresh lovage (celery leaves can be substituted)

Utensils

cookpot
bowl
measuring spoons
slotted spoon
blender or food processor
serving dishes

This dish is seasoned to taste.

Place the pine nuts in a bowl along with the vinegar and soak them for two to three hours.
Mix all the ingredients except the eggs thoroughly in a blender or food processor.
Place water in a cookpot and bring it to a boil on the stove over high heat.
Add the eggs and medium-boil them for 4-6 minutes.
Using a slotted spoon, remove the eggs from the cookpot and place them under cold running water.
Shell the eggs and place them in the serving dishes.
The dish can be prepared up to this point in advance.
Before serving, pour the sauce over the eggs.

Process (after draining most of the vinegar

Miscellaneous pix

Paint Box of Vizier Amenemope. Date: ca. 1427-1401 BC. Place of origin: Egypt Period: New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (1540-1296 BC), reign of Amenhotep II. Medium: Boxwood with inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue. Collection: Cleveland Art Museum.⁣

Music

Buccina Ensemble Bonn – buccine, buccina

Cornu de Pompeii – Abraham Cupeiro – Instrument built by María Ruíz and Abraham Cupeiro, based on the cornus found at Pompeii in the 19th century.

Italian Renaissance: Pentamerone, Anon., “O monaciello” – Eric Boulanger – In 1634, in Naples, Giambattista Basile published Pâmerone or “lo cunto de li cunte”, The Tale of Tales, consisting of works combining story telling, together with music, dance and acting. They consist of streets and taverns songs in Napoli that were so popular that court musicians transcribed the music and arranged it according to musical fashions and rules of that period. They were entertaining, yet also used to spread moral and ethical principles. “With his book, Basile gave life to the genre of the Fairy Tale which, accepted with enthusiasm by his readers and later on adopted by the Grimm brothers and Perrault, will spread like a wildfire all over Europe.” “O monaciello” Passaro Bernaldino detto Velardiniello Source: “Pentameron” Ensemble Oni Wytars.

My daughter, why don’t you go to the dance? “Mother I can’t go.”
My daughter, why? “I can’t show up like this.”
My daughter, what do you need? “I have no dress.”
As the monk heard this he made her a dress.
My daughter, why don’t you go to the dance? “Mother I can’t go.”
My daughter, why? “I can’t show up like this.”
My daughter, what do you need? “I have no tights.”
As the monk heard this he made her a pair of tights.

My daughter, why don’t you go to the dance? “Mother I can’t go.”
My daughter, why? “I can’t show up like this.”
My daughter, what do you need? “I have no shoes.”
As the monk heard this he made his shoes.
My daughter, why don’t you go to the dance? “Mother I can’t go.”
My daughter, why? “I can’t show up like this.”
My daughter, what do you need? “I have no underskirt.”
As the monk heard this he made her an underskirt.
My daughter, why don’t you go to the dance? “Mother I can’t go.”
My daughter, why? “I can’t show up like this.”
My daughter, what do you need? “I have no bra.”
As the monk heard this he made her a bra.
My daughter, why don’t you go to the dance? “Mother I can’t go.”
My daughter, why don’t you go to the dance? “I can’t show up like this.”
My daughter, what do you need? “I have no lover.”
As the monk heard this he became her lover.

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Links

Egypt’s emerald mines fell under the control of the Blemmyes in the Early Middle Ages, archaeologists find – https://www.medievalists.net/2022/03/egypts-emerald-mines-fell-under-control-of-the-blemmyes-in-the-early-middle-ages-archaeologists-find/

Video Links & Podcasts

(podcast on the page) Attila and the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields (451) – https://www.medievalists.net/2022/03/attila-and-the-battle-of-the-catalaunian-fields-451/

Battering Ram and Fire: Civic Glory and Devastation in Dante’s Age – https://www.medievalists.net/2022/03/battering-ram-and-fire-civic-glory-and-devastation-in-dantes-age/

The Famous Royal Prisoner of Old Raglan Castle: Who Was He?

Llwyn Celyn flythrough tour – The Landmark Trust – more at https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/search-and-book/historic-llwyn-celyn/

New and Updated Pages

Update – https://housecapuchin.com/projects-over-period-of-time/marzipan/

Funnies

divider black grey greek key — **Largesse, Gifts and Auction items**
·       ASXLVIII = 88
·         ASXLIX = 794
·         ASL = 2138
·         ASLI = 731
·         ASLII = 304
·         ASLIII = 146
·         ASLIV & ASLV = 230
·         ASLVI = 177 plus 4 puppets, 4 powder fort, 8 cheese spice and 9 powder douce packets, 1 kiss-lock pouch, 10 tiny bobs, 7 pincushions, 3 pins, 3 snip case w/snips, 23 lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 2 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, 48 key bottle openers, 4 dishcloths
Total as a Household = 4238 handed off

In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
Page Created 4/9/22 & published 4/12/22 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 4/12/22

moving writing pen motif — **Largesse, Gifts and Auction items**
·       ASXLVIII = 88
·         ASXLIX = 794
·         ASL = 2138
·         ASLI = 731
·         ASLII = 304
·         ASLIII = 146
·         ASLIV & ASLV = 230
·         ASLVI = 177 plus 4 puppets, 4 powder fort, 8 cheese spice and 9 powder douce packets, 1 kiss-lock pouch, 10 tiny bobs, 7 pincushions, 3 pins, 3 snip case w/snips, 23 lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 2 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, 48 key bottle openers, 4 dishcloths
Total as a Household = 4238 handed off

In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
Page Created 4/9/22 & published 4/12/22 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 4/12/22

April 13, 2022 0

Activities through 4-3-22

For a quiet week, this was remarkably tiring! We’re still not doing much in-person and only the one workshop has anyone showing up… and that person is a mundane! There was some clipart, a fair amount on sewing and embroidery, a little cookery, and a lot of garden this week.

Herbs in the Garden again this week! We’re still working on finishing up all the planting of starts, and cleaning up of weeds for the spring.

Project Day is now open for in-person meet-ups as well as in the Virtual Realm! Potluck this month will be Virtual and Real-World! Herbs Workshops and Sewing are ongoing. Masks required. When will the rest of these open up in person? We’ll keep right on with the virtual ones side-by-side with the actual.

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 7am-9pm, doing incense
Herb Workshop, In the Garden – Irregularly scheduled. Please ask to join the facebook chat!
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, 1 to 5pm
Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Potluck – Next Potluck – 3/20, 4/17, 515, 6/19
Winter Feast LVI, Norse Theme. Page here – https://housecapuchin.com/winter-feast/winter-feast-norse-feast-as-lvi-february-2022/ Cookbook coming next!

Misc – Pic of Their Majesties by Alodar Standson

Forged in Fire – BRYNJARR OLFÚSS – SOME GOOD NEWS. I, BRYNJARR OLFÚSS OF ADIANTUM, COMPETED IN A COMPETITION WHICH AIRS FOR THE FIRST TIME WED APRIL 6TH AT 9PM. SEASON 9, EPISODE 2 “BLACKOUT” – https://play.history.com/shows/forged-in-fire/season-9/episode-2

By her hand will she reign! Congratulations and Huzzah to Helga and Hans, Lady and Lord of the Mists!

Events

Classes –

SCA Aila’ntha – Ld. Edric Longfellow Presenting Oil Painting in the Current Middle Ages. Ld. Edric Longfellow is an artist from the desert lands of Atenveldt. Many of his paintings follow SCA themes. He will present what has inspired him over the years, including artists and individual paintings both period and non-period, as well his travels to Europe to see some of the paintings he will discuss. He will touch on techniques. He will also shamelessly show off his paintings, both SCA themed, as well as mundane pieces. This is meant as a discussion, with lively interaction. Come join us for the evening. Bring your paintings and stories too. Let’s talk art!

Battle of Hastings, 1066: Analysis of the Norman victory – Medievalists – The Battle of Hastings is one of the most important battles fought in England. Duke William of Normandy defeated King Harold II, ushering in the Norman Conquest. In this episode of Bow and Blade, Kelly DeVries and Michael Livingston analyze the campaign and battle, including how the conflict started, the events of 1066, where the battle took place, and why the Normans were victorious.

Greenwood Working at Winsford Cottage Hospital – The Landmark Trust

Early Week – Anja got to the Adiantum A&S night on Tuesday. She was working on some “dried herbs” for the brewery diorama, plus a small paper model of Neuschwanstein. Also got a few initial letters done including the “F” at the top of this report.

Cookery – First salad harvest of the spring! On Sunday, Anja made a root vegetable stew (chicken broth, parsnip, turnip, onion, garlic, cabbage, mushroom, caraway, oregano, salt). We’re still missing three pictures, although I can’t re-take the mushrooms or the spices. I will get a pic of the finished stew, though, and add it this week.

All of the recorded classes from the Culinary Symposium are up! – https://www.youtube.com/c/WestKingdomSCA/videos

Medieval Bread Soup – Historical Italian Cooking – Today we prepare medieval bread soup from the Registrum Coquine by Johannes Bockenheim, written in the 15th century.

Ingredients:
bread
cheese
broth
spices (black pepper, cinnamon, saffron)
salt

Modern Marvels: The History of Tea (S12, E53) | Full Episode – HISTORY – After water, tea is the second most popular drink in the world. It has been around as a drink for 5000 years, and 6 billion pounds of tea are harvested annually. Find out more in Season 12, Episode 53, “Tea.”

Sewing – One person in for workshop time. …and mundane, but I got to show off Isabeau’s lovely stitching on the napkin hems!

Blackwork bookmark

Sack of “hops” and “malt” for the little brewery.

Weave Along with Elewys: Double Face Laurel Leaves Tablet Weaving – Elewys of Finchingefeld – In this video, I am making a pair of silk sock garters for a friend for her elevation to the Laurel, which will be happening this June. This design is a double-sided tablet woven laurel leaf pattern in 20/2 silk.

15th, 16th, and 17th Century Hooks and Eyes for Clothing – Lynne Fairchild – Hooks and eyes for clothing have been around since at least the 15th century. The design and shape of hooks and eyes have changed very little over the centuries, from the medieval period to modern day.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, hooks and eyes could be found as a closure mechanism for collars and such. However, by the 17th century, there was an emergence of large hooks being used on the waistband of men’s breeches.

Sundials, etc. –

Why Archaeologists Are Brewing Ancient Beers – https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-beer-in-history
SAL Evening Lecture: Glass beads of the Anglo-Saxons – The indigenous and the exotic – SocAntiquaries – An Investigation into the beads and techniques of glass beadmakers of the 5th to 7th-centuries CE by Sue Heaser

Herb Bunch – More planting this week, although the seeds didn’t arrive for the starts.

Newly planted turnip, carrot, parsnip in with some leeks and older carrot tops

4/22 – Leeks and garlics, and just left of the cente top is a newly planted celery base

New fig. This one was marked BT, which stands for “Brown Turkey Fig”.

Seed starting trays, ready and waiting

…and some visitors….

Project Day – Isabeau chimed in very early. She’s been busy! …and she says, “I’m recreating mrs. Wesley’s sweater for a customer. Reclaimed supplies.”

Anja worked on soup, finding bits of projects that have gotten scattered and finding a piece of “her” fabric for her tablet case. …plus tracking down, taking and processing photos.

Feast Planning – There’s a poll up on the House Capuchin Facebook group about what to do for this coming year. The options are:

“What should we do for Winter Feast 2023?”

Repeat the Norse Foods theme
Sumpin’ Different
Not bother
Go with German Renn again
Go with Italian foods
Add an option

Go ahead and comment on this blog if you’d like to weigh in!

Miscellaneous pix

The Plantagenets 1154-1453 – David Hutchinson – 1 April 1204 – death of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor of Aquitaine (c. 1122 – 1 April 1204) was Queen of France from 1 August 1137 – 21 March 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, Queen of England from 19 December 1154 – 6 July 1189 as the wife of King Henry II, and Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 9 April 1137 until her death 1 April 1204. As the heir of the House of Poitiers, rulers in southwestern France, she was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. She was patron of literary figures such as Wace, Benoît de Sainte-Maure, and Bernart de Ventadorn. She was also known to have led armies several times in her life and was a key leading figure of the unsuccessful Second Crusade.

Archaeology News, Art & Ancient wonders – Shankar Shiv – 16th Century four poster bed. It was the wedding bed for Sir John Radclyffe and Lady Anne Asshawe and dates back to the 1570s.

Music

Nowell Chimes – Renaissance Players

𝔏𝔢𝔰 𝔐𝔬𝔱𝔢𝔱𝔰, 𝔊𝔲𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔞𝔲𝔪𝔢 𝔡𝔢 𝔐𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔲𝔱 – ensemble Musica Nova – 𝔐𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔠𝔞 𝔐𝔢𝔡𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔞𝔩𝔢 – Ensemble: Musica Nova – Album: Les Motetsn Guillaume de Machaut – Video: Guillaume de Machaut, ms 1586, XIVth cent. – http://www.facebook.com/musicamedievale

In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. The late 13th-century theorist Johannes de Grocheo believed that the motet was “not to be celebrated in the presence of common people, because they do not notice its subtlety, nor are they delighted in hearing it, but in the presence of the educated and of those who are seeking out subtleties in the arts”. In the early 20th century, it was generally believed the name came from the Latin movere (to move), though a derivation from the French mot (“word”, or “phrase”) had also been suggested. The Medieval Latin for “motet” is motectum, and the Italian mottetto was also used. If the word is from Latin, the name describes the movement of the different voices against one another. Today, however, the French etymology is favoured by reference books, as the word “motet” in 13th-century French had the sense of “little word”. In fact, the troped clausulas that were the forerunner of the motet were originally called motelli (from the French mot, “word”), soon replaced by the term moteti. The earliest motets arose in the 13th century from the organum tradition exemplified in the Notre-Dame school of Léonin and Pérotin. The motet probably arose from clausula sections in a longer sequence of organum. Clausulae represent brief sections of longer polyphonic settings of chant with a note-against-note texture. In some cases, these sections were composed independently and “substituted” for existing setting. These clausulae could then be “troped,” or given new text in the upper part(s), creating motets. From these first motets arose a medieval tradition of secular motets. These were two- to four-part compositions in which different texts, sometimes in different vernacular languages, were sung simultaneously over a (usually Latin-texted) cantus firmus usually adapted from a passage of Gregorian chant. Later the cantus firmus was instead played on an instrument, marked in the score with a word “mot” to indicate its origin. It is also increasingly argued that the term “motet” could in fact include certain brief single-voice songs. The texts of upper voices include subjects as diverse as courtly love odes, pastoral encounters with shepherdesses, political attacks, and many Christian devotions, especially to the Virgin Mary. Most medieval motets are anonymous compositions and significantly re-use music and text. They are transmitted in a number of contexts, and were most popular in northern France. The largest surviving collection is in the Montpellier Codex. Increasingly in the 14th and 15th centuries, motets made use of repetitive patterns often termed panisorhythmic; that is, they employed repeated rhythmic patterns in all voices—not only the cantus firmus—which did not necessarily coincide with repeating melodic patterns. Philippe de Vitry was one of the earliest composers to use this technique, and his work evidently had an influence on that of Guillaume de Machaut, one of the most famous named composers of late medieval motets (Wikipedia).

1 Motet n°6 – S’il estoit nuls qui pleindre se deüst
2 Motet n°6 – Et gaudebit cor vestrum
3 Motet n°8 – Et non est qui adjuvet
4 Motet n°3 – Fine Amour (instrumental)
5 Motet n°9 – Fera Pessima
6 Motet n°5 – Fiat voluntas tua
7 Motet n°13 – Eins que ma dame
8 Motet n°13 – Tant doucement
9 Motet n°14 – De ma dolour
10 Motet n°14 – Maugré mon cuer
11 Motet n°15 – Vidi dominum
12 Motet n°19 – A christo honoratus
13 Motet n°18 – Bone pastor
14 Motet n°4 – De bon espoir
15 Motet n°7 – Ego moriar pro te
16 Motet n°20 – Je ne suis mie certeins
17 Motet n°17 – Super omnes speciosa (instrumental)
18 Motet n°21 – Tribulatio proxima est
19 Motet n°4 – Puis que la douce rousée
20 Motet n°11 – Fins cuers dous
21 Rondeau (anonyme) – Por coi me bait mes maris?
22 Motet n°16 – Por coi me bait mes maris
23 Motet n°23 – Ad te supiramus gementes et flentes
24 Motet n°20 – Je ne suis mie certeins (instrumental)
25 Motet n°12 – Libera me
26 Motet n°15 – Vidi dominum (diminution instrumentale)
27 Motet n°1 – Amara valde
28 Motet n°2 – Suspiro
29 Motet n°4 – Speravi (instrumental)
30 Motet n°10 – Obediens usque ad mortem
31 Motet n°17 – Super omnes speciosa
32 Motet n°11 – Fins cuers dous (instrumental)
33 Motet n°22 – Apprehende arma et scutum et exurge
34 Motet n°3 – Quare non sum ortuus

Video Links

Chepstow Castle & The Oldest Door in Europe – The Tudor Travel Guide – Join Sarah on the banks of the River Wye as she explores Chepstow Castle, one of the earliest stone-built castles in Britain, which houses the oldest door in Europe – and it is quite some door!

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April 5, 2022 0

Activities through 3-27-22 Coronet

Coronet was amazing! Even just glimpsed through other folks’ posted pix, and the live-streams, it was amazing. One of the coolest things that happened was seeing a young man who has grown up in the SCA getting his AoA. Lots of folks are posting pictures. Go track ’em down! Lotsa fun! (not enough room here….)

Decided to add some wee brussels sprouts

Still, the only workshop that’s on-going is Sewing, although it’s not well-attended. It’s mostly that it’s a pick-up kind of thing and needs no prep or extra time that Loren and Anja can do it. Project Day is open for in-person meet-ups as well as in the Virtual Realm. Potluck this month will be Virtual and Real-World! Masks are still requested. When will the rest of these open up in person? We’ll keep right on with the virtual ones side-by-side with the actual.

Looking at the weather report, it looks like Wednesday will be another Herbs in the Garden at 3pm.

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 7am-9pm, doing incense
Herb Workshop, In the Garden – Irregularly scheduled. Please ask to join the facebook chat!
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, 1 to 5pm
Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Potluck – Next Potluck – 3/20, 4/17, 515, 6/19
Winter Feast LVI, Norse Theme. Page here – https://housecapuchin.com/winter-feast/winter-feast-norse-feast-as-lvi-february-2022/ More pages coming!

Misc – Summits Coronet

Greetings An Tir,
Thank you for joining us for the live broadcast of Summits Spring Coronet!
It will be a two part live stream:
Part 1: Will cover opening court and processional. It will cover the Captain of the Tygers Cut and Thrust Championship and then Summits Coronet.
Part2: Will cover Their Royal Majesties and The Summits Prince and Princess’s courts. (5PM)
Pt 1 FB: https://www.facebook.com/1431554893781771/posts/3234920850111824/
Pt 1 YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QToNbQof9_Y
Pt 2 FB: https://www.facebook.com/1431554893781771/posts/3234921663445076/
Pt 2 YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiFY5Nw1yw8

Captain of Tygers

Misc pix

The new heirs!

Events

Classes –

What Was Life In Dark Age Britain Really Like? | King Arthur’s Britain | Complete Series | Chronicle – Chronicle – Medieval History Documentaries – Francis Pryor argues that Britain’s early history was a vibrant period, when the island thrived under foreign influences from as far afield as the Middle East without losing any cultural identity. In this full series, he re-imagines the Dark Ages in Britain as a period of expansion, artistic achievement and vibrance.

The Excruciating Death of Thomas Cranmer & The Tale of the Oxford Martyrs – The Tudor Travel Guide – Today we travel to the heart of the ancient city of Oxford to hear the tragic tale of the Oxford Martyrs,: Thomas Cranmer, Nicolas Ridley and Hugh Latimer, all of whom were burnt at the stake in the mid-1550s on account of their evangelical faith. If you are thinking of visiting the city, you will also see the most notable sites associated with their story.

Early Week – Other than some work on the garden, mostly we were sorting out dishes and putting things away.

Cookery – A lot of the leftover greens went into a soup/stew early in the week. We were working on leftovers the whole week. On Thursday we got some veg that Anja decided to pickle, since they were so pretty: rainbow carrots, a huge turnip and some parsnips. but that meant another batch of pickling broth, too.

Rainbow carrots – 1/2 of them peeled. The purple ones are almost black!

Chopped and in the jar with onions, parsnip, cuke and pickling broth

Lots more added to the Culinary Symposium list! – https://www.youtube.com/c/WestKingdomSCA/videos

CEBULA (Onions) #routiersGotujzKrasnalem DDo Europy dotarła z centralnej Azji. Pierwsze wzmianki pochodzą z Egiptu z 3000 lat p.n.e. Prymitywne odmiany cebuli bardziej… See moreONION#routiersGotujzKrasnalem DShe reached Europe from Central Asia. The first mentions come from Egypt from 3000 years BC. Primitive varieties of onions resemble today’s shawl more than the yellow one we know.Onion was a very popular ingredient. On the tables of higher classes she performed only in the form of a thermometer (soup, sauces). Raw food was identified with poor layers from which it could smell its specific aroma.Onion was also used as a medicine: raw for headaches and stomach pains, cooked – as a swamp medicine. It was also attributed to its properties that improve the quality of sperm and strengthen the appetite for sex.More about Middle Ages vegetables on our blog: https://grhroutiers.wixsite.com/…/sredniowieczne-warzywaAuthor: Michał “Krasnal” MadejaPhoto. XIV Sanitary Tacuinum.

Sewing – Working on another bookmark, started it, discovered that the pattern didn’t work, picked another and mostly finished it by Friday….just a few motifs to go.

Sundials, etc. –

Gaocheng Astronomical Observatory, also known as the Dengfeng Observatory, built in 1276, near Dengfeng in Henan Province, China.

Herb Bunch – Lily of the Valley and Peonies went into pots on Tuesday. A bunch of seeds went in, too: peas in one of the railing planters, a few sunflowers, a pot of alexanders, and another pot of nettles. Anja started working on tags for the sale plants, as well as what’s in the garden.

Lily of the Valley, starting up through the soil

Peony…. just barely visible above and right of center

More re-grows. That celery was harvested for the soup-before-last.

Project Day – Anja processed pictures and nabbed links for this week. After that was done the embroidery came out. Loren filled water bottles for the indoor plants and Anja watered. Pirate Marzipan got made in quantity.

Feast Planning – Another page got updated, Birka chicken this time. I think we’re pretty close to having a full-on feast recipe for this one.

Miscellaneous pix

Orvieto Cathedral – Façade detail Orvieto , Umbria, Italy Duomo di Orvieto ( ltalian) construction began in 1290 and completed 1591 .

Waddesdon Accession number 22.1997 “A Black Landsknecht and Bystanders” ca. 1510-1520 Zoomable museum link: https://waddesdon.org.uk/the-collection/item/?id=5240 From the museum description: In the left background, there is a step on which stands a half-visible man wearing black cloak and a brown leather boot. In the left foreground, there is a partially visible figure dressed in an orange tunic. At the back of the step, there is a woman in a green dress with a white partlet, and a pearl on her forehead, holding her right hand to her face and a short stick in her left. Behind her, in a doorway, there is an Arabic man with his head covered in a white cloth. To the right of the mercenary, there are three women, two are richly dressed. One, with dark skin, is breast feeding a baby. She wears a turban and jewels. The third is a servant woman with bare feet, turning around, and holding a candle. Behind them are a middle aged man with a beard and green hat, a tonsured monk holding a yellow staff, a young man in a black hat trimmed with ostrich feathers and two black men, one with a colourful striped hat. A building wall appears in the background.

Music

Late medieval England – “The Agincourt Carol” – Eric Boulanger – Also known as “Agincourt Song”, “Agincourt Hymn”, “Deo gratias Anglia” or “England give thanks to God for victory!”, The Agincourt Carol relates and celebrates the battle of Agincourt in 1415, in which King Henry V of England defeated King Charles VI of France.
Source: “The Service of Venus and Mars”
Music for the Knights of the Garter, 1340-1440
Gothic Voices, Christopher Page dir.

Deo gratias, Anglia, redde pro victoria!
Owre kynge went forth to Normandy,
With grace and myght of chyvalry;
Ther God for hym wrought mervelusly,
Wherfore Englonde may calle and cry
Deo gratias,

He sette a sege, forsothe to say,
To Harflu towne with ryal aray;
That toune he wan and made afray
That Fraunce shal rewe tyl domesday.
Deo gratias.

Then went hym forth, owre king comely,
In Agincourt feld he faught manly;
Thorw grace of God most marvelusly,
He had both feld and victory.
Deo gratias.

Ther lordys, erles and barone
Were slayne and taken and that full soon,
And summe were broght into Lundone
With joye and blisse and gret renone;
Deo gratias.

Almighty God he keep owre kynge,
His peple, and his well-wyllynge ending;
Then may we call and savely syng:
Deo gratias.

Video & Podcast Links

The Deadly Syphilis Outbreak of Tudor times. – https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b7LlefrEsSghttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/b7LlefrEsSg

Medieval Storytime: Animals – Medievalists – For this week’s medieval storytime, Danièle reads a collection of descriptions, fables, and poems all featuring animals. From venomous toads to proud peacocks and malicious whales, the Middle Ages shares its moral worldview through the animal kingdom.

New and Updated Pages

Birka Chicken – \https://wordpress.com/page/housecapuchin.com/19071

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March 29, 2022 0

Activities through 3-20-22 Potluck

With a potluck coming up we spent a lot of the week harvesting, prepping and cooking. There weren’t a lot of classes added online this week, although the link for the culinary symposium had several added. That’s only about 1/2, so I’m expecting more. One project got completed, at least, a brewing diorama for Loren.

Main course plate – Chicken (far left), then clkws from left, green stuffing, glazed carrots, fennel bulb in mead.

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 7am-9pm, on hold at the moment.
Herb Workshop, In the Garden – Irregularly scheduled. Please ask to join the facebook chat!
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, 1 to 5pm
Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Potluck – Next Potluck – 4/17, 515, 6/19
Winter Feast LVI, Norse Theme. Page here – https://housecapuchin.com/winter-feast/winter-feast-norse-feast-as-lvi-february-2022/ More pages coming!
Winter Feast LVII – We’re discussing repeating the theme.

Miscellaneous

March 11-13th, 2022 The West Coast Culinary Symposium – Recorded classes here: https://www.youtube.com/c/WestKingdomSCA/videos Added so far….

SUBTLETIES ROUNDTABLE
Growing Your Own (Food): in Trying Times
Medieval Flavors
Keynote Speaker Volker Bach: The Landsknecht Cookbook
Pottage, Porridge and Potherbs: What’s in the pot?
Brewing with Gruit Herbs
Talking Sugar with Granny
Malt processing and extraction
Teutsche Speisekammer – introducing period German culinary sources
Is Chocolate Period?

Events

MAR 25 AT 3 PM – MAR 27 AT 12 PM – Spring Coronet AS 56 – Event by Barony of Terra Pomaria, Principality of the Summits and 2 others – 5605 Jubilee Dr SE Turner, OR 97392
Join us for Principality of The Summits’ March Coronet, hosted by the Barony of Terra Pomaria in the central Willamette Valley in Oregon, ten minutes from I-5! In addition to the Coronet Tourney, we will also be having The Summits’ Cut & Thrust Championship to determine the Kapitan Serebra Tigra (Captain of the Silver Tiger). https://www.facebook.com/events/1128102257928319/
Pre-registration is required to attend the event, and you can choose to pay online with PayPal, or pay at gate by cash or check. Bunks will be available, as well as full RV hook-ups! Watch the Kingdom event page or this Facebook event for updated information as the event draws closer, and we hope to see you there!
Adult weekend: $25, Adult day trip: $15, Minors (under 18): Free *SCA Members will receive a $5 member discount off the cost listed above. Bunks/RV spots (with hookups)/Camping will be $15 per person.

Dance Vids – Gaspar Sanz – Canarios (con danza).avi

Classes – Historical Hairstyles from the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXnx8K_rgXw

Early Week – Trying to finish the sauces and did finally finish the Brewing diorama. (see pix in Sundials)

Cookery – Greens harvested for the green stuffing. The pear dish was started on Tuesday. Mushroom catsup was finally done on Wednesday. Things are getting cooked in short stages! Bread rolls were baked on Thursday. Hard-boiled eggs were done, plus the pickling broth was set up for pickled eggs on Friday, then they got put together overnight. On Saturday a lot of things were collected to work on at home and Loren got the bacon for the green stuffing fried and the eggs boiled. Saturday night was pretty amazing. Everything came together in about 4 hours. More under “potluck” below.

Mushroom catsup/spice

Viking Pizza Day from Lofotr Museum

Ancient Roman Cabbage Rolls – Historical Italian Cooking

Medieval Irish Food: Peasant to King – Tasting History with Max Miller

RECIPE
4 lbs (2kg) corned beef
1/4 cup (85g) honey
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large head of Cabbage
1 Yellow Onion
2 Leeks
2 cups (475ml) beef broth
1 teaspoon salt
1 optional teaspoon of pepper
Boil the corned beef for 1 minute. Drain and repeat at least one more time. Mix the honey and salt together and coat the corned beef. Wrap the corned beef in aluminum foil and set in a dish or roasting pan. Roast in the oven at 325°F/165°C for approximately 1 hour per pound. 30 minutes before it is finished, open the foil to let darken.
For the cabbage, quarter the cabbage, dice the onion and leek. Place all of the ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil on the stove. Reduce to a simmer and cover. Let cook for 25-30 minutes.
**Some of the links and other products that appear on this video are from companies which Tasting History will earn an affiliate commission or referral bonus. Each purchase made from these links will help to support this channel with no additional cost to you. The content in this video is accurate as of the posting date. Some of the offers mentioned may no longer be available.
Subtitles: Jose Mendoza

Sewing – One more bookmark got finished.

Dressing up a Tudor man, middle class, circa 1530 – priorattire – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T7B7yuG0C4

Sundials, etc. – The Brewing diorama is finished! This was a Michael’s “Bungalow” kit, embellished with printed papers and then the friar, casks and glasses/mugs added. Yet to come are some sacks (for hops and malt) and a stool or three.

The box – the window needs to be frames, I think

Etching Carnelian Beads: Understanding And Reproducing An Ancestral Technique – Https://worldhistorylab.britishmuseum.org/etching-carnelian-beads-understanding-and-reproducing-an-ancestral-technique/

Herb Bunch – Not much going this week, except for weeding, and some harvest of greens for the “green filling” for the chicken: dandelion, bittercress, carrot, beet and turnip tops, lovage, oregano, scallions, radish, variety lettuce. (more on this under the recipe)

Garden pix from this week.

New mint!

You can see the new oregano coming up… and the stinky bob

Thursday Visit – Isabeau stopped by during a delivery run to the coast. She brought the finished napkins and took with her one of Loren’s bread rolls and one of the doll forms.

Project Day – Most of this was cooking, but Anja dug into the book collection to see whether it could be better organized. It *can* be, but it’s only partial! Part of the things is that borrowers often just pile on top and we haven’t looked at it since the Plague started…. A fair amount of the day was taken up with cooking, but since most of the prep was done it went quickly.

Feast Planning – We’re talking about repeating the theme this year and getting things better organized for Winter Feast 2023.

Potluck Menu

Nibbles

Bread
Chive butter
Tvarog
Pickled beans
Pickled eggs
Pickled brussels sprouts
Black olives

Main

Birka Chicken with green stuffing
glazed carrots
Fennel bulb simmered in mead
Grewel of aulemandes

Afters

Apple/Pear muse
Comfits
Pirate marzipan

Feast dishes – some repeat in other galleries

Nibbles tray – Rolls, tvarog with caraway and onion, pickled eggs, pickled beans, pickled brussels sprouts, black olives, chive butter

Spiced with cardamom and nutmeg, almond milk and honey added

Tvarog

Green Stuffing with the Birka Chicken

Bittercress, before harvesting, growing in a lily pot.

Apple/Pear muse

Cutting pears – the third one broke the cutter!

Recipes

Apple Muse – We used more pear than apple, this time…saffron and sandalwood were replaced with cardamom and nutmeg.

Apples (You can start from unsweetened applesauce, if you would rather.)
Water
Almond milk
Honey
Bread crumbs (left out)
Saffron (subbed nutmeg/cardamom)
Red sandalwood powder (left out)
Salt

Apple Muse – from Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books.: HARLEIAN MS. 279 (ab. 1430), & HARL. MS. 4016 (ab. 1450), WITH EXTRACTS FROM ASHMOLE MS. 1439, LAUD MS. 553, & DOUCE MS. 55.: EDITED BY THOMAS AUSTIN. – https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/CookBk?rgn=main;view=fulltext

lxxix. Apple Muse.—Take Appelys an sethe hem, an Serge*. [ Sift. ] hem þorwe a Sefe in-to a potte; þanne take Almaunde Mylke & Hony, an caste þer-to, an gratid Brede, Safroun, Saunderys, & Salt a lytil, & caste all in þe potte & lete hem sethe; & loke þat þou stere it wyl, & serue it forth.

Apple Muse – Take apples and stew them and sift them through a sieve into a potte, then take almond milk and hony and cast there-to, some grated bread, saffron, sauders and a little salt, and cast all in the pot and let him simmer, and like that you stir it well and serve it forth.

Grewel of Almaundes – from https://medievalcookery.com/recipes/grewel.html We ended up not getting any pictures that turned out, but this is essentially oatmeal with a lot of almond flour.

Ingredients

1/4 cup blanched almonds
1/4 cup steel-cut oats
2 cups water
pinch saffron
1/4 tsp. salt

Method

Grind the almonds until they are like coarse breadcrumbs and place them in a saucepan with the remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until the mixture thickens and the oatmeal is tender – about 10 minutes.
Note that the cooking time can vary significantly depending on the type of oats used.
Makes 4 half-cup servings.

Source [Forme of Cury, S. Pegge (ed.)]: Grewel Of Almaundes. XX.IIII. VI. Take Almaundes blaunched, bray hem with oot meel. and draw hem up with water. cast þeron Safroun & salt &c.

Miscellaneous pix

Starkey Comics – Been reading about rivers and drainage basins recently, which gave me an idea for a map. So here’s a map of Europe redrawn in a world where borders are based entirely on where rivers flow, not culture or history or anything logical like that. Maybe it’s a world where people evolved from beavers instead of apes or something. Each nation now matches a drainage basin into a particular sea or ocean, with a few exceptions: The Mediterranean has been split up roughly into its composite seas because otherwise it would be huge. Celtica is a grouping of the Celtic Sea, Irish Sea, and English Channel basins, plus the regions of Britain and Ireland that drain into the Atlantic, because they group together nicely and would be messy otherwise. The Black Sea basin has been broken up into “Danube” to the west, because that one river has such a vast basin; and Chornea to the north (name from “Chorne more”, Ukrainian for the Black Sea). The Volga, which drains into the Caspian Sea, also gets its own nation, because it has such a huge basin. Adopting these borders would be an incredibly bad idea and would make everyone very cross.

Tree of Life” mosaic from Hisham’s Palace, built in the 8th century. A.D. in Jericho by the Umayyad Caliphate. https://museum-of-artifacts.blogspot.com/

Music

David Munrow : Renaissance Suite, from the film ‘La course en tête’ (1974) (from EMI LP HQS 1415) – Rodders

I. Triumph – Intradas VI & VII from Hans Leo Hassler’s ‘Lustgarten’ 00:00-02:55
II. They’re off – Bransle Double de Poictou & Bransle Gay Double from Michael Praetorius’ ‘Terpsichore’ 02:55-04:45
III. Training by David Munrow 04:45-07:40
IV. On the Road – Basse Danse ‘Dont Vient Cela’ from Tielman Susato’s ‘Danserye’ 07:40-11:50
V. Complaint – O Death Rock Me Asleep (Anon. 16th century) (James Bowman, counter-tenor) 11:50-15:10
VI. In the Mountains – Bransle Simple from Michael Praetorius’ ‘Terpsichore’ 15:10-17:30
VII. The Six Days of Grenoble by David Munrow 17:30-19:30
VIII. The Dream – ‘Tristan’s Lament’ (Anon. 14th century) 19:30-24:05
IX. The Race Against One’s Self by David Munrow 24:05-27:25
X. Why Suffer – Consonanze Stravaganti by Giovanni Macque 27:25-29:10
XI. Effort – Basse Galliarde from Pierre Phalèse’s ‘Premier Livre De Danseries’ & Galliarde from Michael Praetorius’ ‘Terpsichore’ 29:10-32:20
XII. End Music – Variations on ‘La Folie D’Espagne’ from Arcangelo Corelli Op. 5 No. 12 and Division flûte 32:20-38:50
Performed by the Early Music Consort of London directed by David Munrow.

Lenten stuff – a Tudor ballad for Lent – Passamezzo – Lenten Stuff – a satirical ballad, written by William Elderton in the mid 16th Century. From MS Ashmole 48.
The ballad is set to the tune of “the cramp”, a popular dance tune of the time, which is found among the Three Country Dances in Thomas Ravenscroft’s Pammelia.
Lent was a time for penitence, prayer and fasting, and the ballad gives a good description of Lent in Tudor England, with complaints (among other things) about an excess of fish, leeks and nettles. It also mentions the traditional figure of Jack-a-Lent, a stuffed effigy, usually made of straw, which was dragged through the streets during Lent, and burned on Palm Sunday.

Richard de Winter: baritone
Catherine Groom: harp
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: renaissance violin
A newe ballad entytuled, Lenton stuff, for a lyttell munny ye maye have inowghe: To the tune of the Crampe.
Lenton stuff ys cum to the towne,
The clensynge weeke cums quiklye,
You knowe well inowghe you must kneele downe ;
Cum on, take asshes trykly,
That nether are good fleshe nor fyshe,
But dyp with Judas in the dyshe,
And keepe a rowte not woorthe a ryshe.
Herrynge, herrynge, whyte and red,
Seeke owt suche as be rotten;
Thowghe sum be hanged, and sum be dede,
And sum be yet forgotten,
The tyme wyll cum the displynge rod,
Thowghe idolls dum make many od,
Wyll fyrk owt som that feare not God.
Walflet oysters, salt and greene,
Are trym metes to be eaten ;
Trusty subjects to there queene
Neede never to be beten.
And a sallet, sure as God, exceedes,
And must procure dysgestion needes,
Thats pyct so pure yt hathe no weedes.
Newe place, newe, at every tyde,
Thys ys the common cravynge ;
In every place let them be tryde,
That are of yll behavynge.
For suche as of beyond say smell,
The cum to far to savor well,
As I here the common people tell.
And as thys lent tyme many seekes
For yerbs and sallets dayntye,
I never in my lyf sawe lyekes
In every place so plentye.
For every man lykes what he lust,
And as he lykes he puts hys trust,
So fewe or non belyke be just.
Of nettells lykwyse there be store
In sallets at thys season ;
‘ For men be nettled more and more,
With palltryse passynge reson ;
And sum uppon a nettell pysse,
That see not where the nettell ys ;
And many a on fynds fault at thys.
Then Jake-a-lent comes justlynge in,
With the hedpeece of a herynge,
And saythe, “repent yowe of yower syn,
For shame, syrs, leve yower swerynge.”
And to Palme Sonday doethe he ryde,
With sprots and herryngs by hys syde,
And makes an end of Lenton tyde.

Links

Shield of an Anglo-Saxon Prince – Part 1: Surprising Discoveries – https://www.thegns.org/blog/princely-shields-part-1

Shield of an Anglo-Saxon Prince – Part 2: Building the Shield – https://www.thegns.org/blog/princely-shields-part-2

The Man Who Built 40 Castles Around a Little German Town – https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/miniature-castles-gerbstedt

A Shining Example (gold bowl and wire) – https://www.archaeology.org/issues/459-2203/digs/10344-digs-austria-urnfield-gold

Video Links

World of Stonehenge – Nebra Sky Disc explained: Purpose, mystery, context and criminal discovery – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH7d8-2vB_Q

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March 23, 2022 0

Activities through 3-13-22

Loren and Anja are finally getting somewhere in cleaning up the shop after the “winter re-set”. All the big equipment is put away. The stack of boxes for storage is gone. The only thing left are the rollies and book boxes… That means that the sitting area is fair game for workshops and Project Day again! Still no regular Herbs Workshop, and Sewing has a couple of mundanes who float through.

There’s been a fair amount of progress on the feast pages. One more and that’s done and we’ll get the cookbook set up!

Potluck this month will be Virtual and Real-World! Herbs Workshop and Sewing are ongoing. Masks required (mostly because of Anja’s immune system problems). When will the rest of these open up in person? We’ll keep right on with the virtual ones side-by-side with the actual.

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 7am-9pm, doing incense
Herb Workshop, In the Garden – Irregularly scheduled. Please ask to join the facebook chat!
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, 1 to 5pm
Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Potluck – Next Potluck – 3/20, 4/17, 515, 6/19
Winter Feast LVI, Norse Theme. Page here – https://housecapuchin.com/winter-feast/winter-feast-norse-feast-as-lvi-february-2022/ More pages coming!

Misc – Sun- Arts and Sciences Championship Finals for the Kingdom of An Tir – Kingdom of AnTir, SCA
Greetings An Tir,
We are pleased to bring you a live stream of the Finals for the Arts and Sciences Championship. This live stream will cover morning court of Her Royal Majesty, the Final round for the Arts and Sciences Champion and invocation of the new Champion. For coverage of the earlier rounds please tune into the A&S Champion FB page Saturday.
Please note that each day will have its own link to live stream:
Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ueQ1rxXnGg
Saturday Pt 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U4dGJF0QOI&t=0s
Saturday Pt 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U4dGJF0QOI
Sunday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-HyRDvruQs

But this event is not just Rapier, its also Arts and Sciences you say. Well our Arts and Sciences Champion herself will be covering the entrants on Saturday live on the Champions FB page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?…
On Sunday our stream will be covering the finalists for A&S as well while the current Champion is otherwise engaged so check back in!

Events

SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 2022 AT 12 PM – Perfectly Period Party Platters by Marcella di Cavallino (Turi) – Online event by Barony of Terra Pomaria and Kristopher Williams – On March 20th Terra Pomaria will host our friend Marcella di Cavallino (Turi), who will be joining us from the Kingdom of Drachenwald! – In this class, you’ll learn a little about the history of cheese in Italy, and a lot about how to put together a good cheese plate, based on Bartolomeo Scappi’s 1570 ‘Opera’ recipe book and instruction manual. Impress your friends with renaissance snacks you can find at your 21st century deli! https://www.facebook.com/events/225589189595790/?active_tab=about

Classes – The West Coast Culinary Symposium recorded a *ton* of classes! Watch this space for a link when they start going up!

The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims – Medievalists – Begins with a bit on current events. At 4 minutes the week’s podcast actually starts. In the Middle Ages, demons were a well-known threat to even the most devout Christians. This week, Danièle speaks with Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski about the strange case of Ermine de Reims, a late medieval woman plagued by demonic visitations.

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh. A past president of the Medieval Academy of America, Renate does research on French literature, religious and political history, and the history of medicine. Her book, The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2015.

He Did What? Fountains Abbey & The Dissolution of the Monasteries – The Tudor Travel Guide – In this video, Sarah explores the story of Fountains Abbey, in North Yorkshire, the Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, which brought great abbeys like Fountains to ruin in the late 1530s.

The Real Truth About Christopher Columbus | Secrets & Mysteries Of Christopher Columbus | Chronicle – Chronicle – Medieval History Documentaries – Follow this team of explorers as they reveal several new facts about the man credited with discovering America. Was he really born in Genoa, Italy? Was he a spy for King John II of Portugal? Who really funded his voyage?
With the help of DNA science, university scholars, and even Columbus’s own living family, the mysteries can be unravelled. This ground-breaking documentary follows a trail of evidence to show Columbus might have been much more, or less, than we once thought.

Early Week – Trying to get enough oomph together to finish the mustard catsup and start the beet/horseradish relish.

Cookery – This was a “prep” week, except for finishing up the mushroom catsup and mushroom spice. Lots of fruit and veg got processed Thurs. & Fri. Anja got to the Cheese round-table at West Coast Culinary Symposium. (Link will be posted when they get them up!) No pix….

Volker Bach – Today, I had the opportunity to try out a few recipes from Constantinus Africanus’ translation of Isaac Iudaeus’ de diaetis in the company of friends, and they turned out quite good.

Flatbread, fava beans, lamb in onion sauce, poached egg, cabbage cooked with pork – a successful meal

Cabbage is cold and dry in the first degree, it generates turbid and melancholy blood and gives a horrid odour. It is of two kinds: One that is similar to beets, one which is called canabit. Cabbages are also of two kinds, winter and summer cabbage. (…) Therefore so that their harm is removed, they are boiled and the first cooking water is discarded and they are cooked in another with the fattest meat of livestock (pecudis) or pigs and seasoned with coriander, pepper, cumin and garlic, and served.

Diced lamb in onion sauce – There are condiments that preserve the meats in their natural goodness and others that lead them away from their nature. For they are seasoned with water, salt, oil, coriander, onions and cumin, and also with vinegar, obsomagarum (probably murri, a fermented sauce), wine and sharp miripsium (spice mix) and also with juice of sour grapes, with the juice of lemons (pomi citrini) and pomegranates. Those that are seasoned with water, salt, oil, coriander, onions and cumin and boiled have their humidity conserved like boiled meats while those that are cooked with vinegar, obsomagarum, wine and sour miripsium are similar in heat and dryness to fried meats. Diced lamb was first quickly sautéd in olive oil, then I added diced mild onion and water, simmering for two hours until the meat was very tender and the onions turned into an unctuous sauce. The whole was seasoned with cumin, coriander, and salt

An inoffensive flatbread – just flour, salt, oil, yeast and water – was served with the meal.

The diversity of eggs according to their preparation is multiple. There are those which are roasted, be it in the ashes or in the coals. And some are boiled in water. Others are fried in the pan in oil or in other fat. And some are cooked in water and oil with various condiments such as onion, pepper, cumin and similar. Others are cooked with meat and herbs in sauces. (…) I sautéd thinly sliced onions in olive oil and filled up the pot with water, then added salt, pepper, and cum,in, the eggs poached in that liquid turned out wonderfully flavourful and rich.

The second method – in meat with a sauce – was also tried: Eggs broken into the finished lamb dish shakshuka-style

(…) And thus it is good to eat the juice that is pressed from apples and the flesh discarded, or to find another way in which their hardness and sharpness is relieved. It is relieved in three ways, that is, by boiling in water because that way they acquire softness and humidity, or by suspending them above the steam of hot water, because that causes moistening and ripening, or by cutting them apart in the middle, removing the hard seeds inside them and in their place inserting sugar or honey, (…) and they must afterwards be wrapped in some kind of dough and then placed in the ashes or coals until the dough outside is cooked. Through this art, their softness and tastiness predominates, they are quickly digested, and the harm they do to the nerves is relieved. (…)

Apple, cored and cooked in a pastry shell

I filled the cored apples with honey and then wrapped them in a basic egg-and-water-crust. they were baked at 200°C for 45 minutes and served warm. Since a lot of juice and honey ran out, we spooned the liquid over the apples. Cooking the crust in the embers might have produced a better seal. Everything was satisfying, and especially the lamb was delightful.

Medieval Recipe Experimentation – The conclusion! – The Creative Contessa – Here is part II of my attempt to redact a 15th century English/French recipe from the original late Middle English using tools available in my underequipped modern kitchen, allowes de mutton (the original of “beef olives”). For part I, see: https://youtu.be/QM6vi0X1C20

To Make Short Cakes, a 16th century Tudor Cookie Recipe | SCA Baking – Lynne Fairchild – This is my interpretation of the 16th century Elizabethan receipt (recipe) from 1594 for Short Cakes in A Good Huswifes Handmaide.

To Make Shortcakes:
3/4 cup flour
4 Tbsp unsalted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/8 tsp ground clove
1/8 tsp ground mace
pinch saffron
1 egg yolk

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350ºF. Mix ingredients. Bake for 10 minutes.
Yield: 12 cakes (cookies)

Original Recipe:
To make short Cakes – “219”TAke wheate flower, of the fayrest ye can get, and put it in an earthern pot, and stop it close, and set it in an Ouen and bake it, and when it is baken, it will be full of clods, and therefore ye must searse it through a search: the flower will haue as long baking as a pastie of Uenison. When you haue done this, take clowted Creame, or els sweet Butter, but Creame is better, then take Sugar, Cloues, Mace, and Saffron, and the yolke of an Egge for one doozen of Cakes one yolke is ynough: then put all these foresaid things together into the cream, & temper them al together, then put them to your flower and so make your Cakes, your paste wil be very short, therefore yee must make your Cakes very litle: when yee bake your cakes, yee must bake them vpon papers, after the drawing of a batch of bread. – A Good Huswifes Handmaide – http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/book1594huswife.htm

Medieval Mardi Gras – Tasting History with Max Miller

Sewing – Not a lot other than mundane sewing this week. Workshop was one mundane hand-stitching pouches while Anja got jump rings onto tassels for more bookmarks! …and we got photos. They’re totally mixed up as to when they were done.

Slavic Headwear – Royal University of the Midrealm – RUM – Lady Kathryn de Wrytar details her work on recreating headwear from 10th – 13th century Slavic burial finds.

Weaving Double Width Fabric – Elewys of Finchingefeld – An experiment with me figuring out how to make my 22″ wide jack loom make wider fabric for a future project. Can I figure it out? Will I scream curses to the manufacturer of this yarn? Should I have had more tea?

Sundials, etc. –

536 AD: The Year That The Sun Disappeared | Catastrophe | Chronicle – Chronicle – Medieval History Documentaries – From late 535 AD to 536, written records from across the world suggest a huge climate catastrophe. Dubbed the year “without a summer”, the sun was completely dimmed and shadows were invisible even at noon. The cause of of the “worst year to be alive in history” has been long uncertain.
Was it a comet? An asteroid? A volcano? Archaeologist David Keys reveals the latter is to blame for the Dark Ages of famine and plague that shaped the world order of today. Episode 1 of 2.

Herb Bunch – We had several below-freezing nights again. Wednesday’s Herbs in the Garden did some seed planting and potted up more dahlia tubers, plus a couple of wee plants that were tucked up inside the bundle! There is a whole 5 gal bucket of tubers, plus a dozen more that were too large to fit.

lily, foxglove, iris and lots of dahlia pots

Foxglove and several dahlias surrounding the wee one

Pots all tucked up… one iris, the rest are dahlias!

Project Day – Loren was exhausted, so he slept all afternoon in the back of the shop. Anja was sanding spurtles and spoons and then fished out another tin of wood butter for finishing.

Helen Louise checked in and said, “2 kirtles finished this week and 2 partlets completed as well. My goal this week is to dive into making some mundane clothes for spring.”

Feast Planning – We’re down to one more page of feast stuff and then we’ll start on the cookbook so it can go together to be published.

Recipes –

Beet Sauce (redacted from Rumpolt)

Ingredients

3 beets, trimmed & peeled
1 cup water
½ cup vinegar
1 1×3 inch horseradish root, peeled and grated (last inch was cut and added to beets)
¼ cup sweet white wine
¼ cup Tbsp. cider vinegar
1 tsp. brown sugar
¼ tsp whole coriander
¼ tsp whole aniseed
1 tsp whole caraway
pinch of sea salt
1 tsp. brown sugar
pinch of sea salt

Tools

Saucepan
Peeler
Microplane
Knife
Stirring spoon
Glass canning jar

Directions

Place the beets in a medium saucepan and cover with water and first amount of vinegar.
Peel and grate horseradish.
Cut last inch and add to beets.
Bring to a boil and then cover and cook until tender, about 20 minutes.
Put grated horseradish in jar and add wine and vinegar, spices, salt and sugar and let stand.
Drain beets and set aside to cool.
When the beets have cooled, grate them into a bowl.
Then add the beets to the jar and stir well.
Refrigerate overnight so all the flavors have a chance to blend well and stir again before each use.

Store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.
Sources

Beet Sauce – Rumpolt

Ein New Kochbuch. Marx Rumpolt. 1581, Transcribed by Dr. Thomas Gloning; Translated by Gwen Catrin von Berlin.

3. Rote Ruben eyngemacht mit klein geschnittenen Merrettich/ Aniss/Coriander/ und ein wenig Kuemel/ sonderlich wenn die Rubengeschnitten/ gesotten mit halb Wein und halb Essig.

Red beets preserved with small cut horseradish/ anise/ coriander/ and a little caraway/ special if the beets are cut/ marinated in half wine and half vinegar.

Bohemian Beet and Horseradish Relish – Červená řepa s křenem

BY KYTKA MARCH 27, 2018

Ingredients

3 beets, scrubbed and trimmed
1 6 to 8 inch horseradish root, peeled and grated
2 Tbsp. vinegar (Yes, you can use apple cider vinegar to make it healthier)
1 tsp. sugar, brown sugar or honey
inch of sea salt

Directions

Place the beets in a medium saucepan and cover completely with cold water.
Bring to a boil and then cover and cook until tender, about 35 minutes.
Drain and set aside to cool.
As it is draining, peel and grate your horseradish.
When the beets have cooled, grate them into a bowl, or better yet, pulse in your food processor, realizing it will look like a bloody mess all over the place and there will be a lot of clean up!
Then add the beets, grated horseradish, vinegar, brown sugar or honey, and a pinch of salt to a large plate or mixing bowl and blend the rich goodness all together.
Work together until well combined and voila! You now have Bohemian beet and horseradish relish.
Transfer the delicious and colorful concoction to a glass container.
Refrigerate overnight so all the the flavors have a chance to blend well.

The best part is that you can store it in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

Music

Kings & Beggars – Богородиця (Bogurodzica) – Kings & Beggars – https://kingsandbeggars.bandcamp.com/… – All the money from its sales (as well as all the money we get from the sales of our other releases) will be sent to relevant charitable foundations and volunteers to help Ukraine. With the beginning of the undisguised phase of Russia’s war against Ukraine, our entire country has become the unified organism that fights the enemy. Ukrainians are doing everything possible to help the army, and we, the musicians, do not stand aside either. We have recorded the song in support of our warriors, and all the money from its sales on the Internet (as well as all the money we get from the sales of our other releases) will be sent to relevant charitable foundations and volunteers.

We chose “Bogurodzica – The Holy Mother Of God“, an ancient knights hymn which been sang before the battle by the Ruthenians (ancestors of modern Ukrainians and Belarusians) and Poles. Over time, the performance of the “Bogurodzica” became part of the coronation ceremony of the first Polish kings of the Jagiellonian dynasty. According to many studies, this anthem is of Ruthenian origin, but later it became heritage of Polish culture. The Cyrillic inscription of the text of the hymn is in the statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of 1529. In our rendition, the old version of the text sounds first, and in in the second half you will hear the modern Ukrainian language to show the connection of generations of Ukrainian…

released March 12, 2022 – Arranged and performed by Kings & Beggars ensemble (Lviv, Ukraine):

Anna Vasylchenko – vocals, viella, Galician gaita, Lithuanian shawm
Marta Hovdysh – vocals, tenor recorder, hurdy-gurdy, pommer
Yevhen Hrynevych – recorder, raushpfeif
Max Kerner – bass citole
Artur Temchenko – medieval drum

Male voices:

Olexander Ratzyn
Nazar Onyshko
Maksym Shpynda
Taras Hrudovy
Taras Melnyk

Recorded, mixed and mastered – Max Kerner (MAX220 Studio), Lviv 2022

‘Höfischer Tanz‘ – Mittelalter, Renaissance und mehr – Musik: Höfischer Tanz E-Dur © Jürgen Wagner – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxvPiLSGoMo – Einspielung und Gestaltung: Jürgen Wagner – Bilder: Miniaturen aus mittelalterlichen Schriften

French Renaissance Guillaume Dufay: J’attendray tant qu’il vous playra – Eric Boulanger

Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474) – Rondeau: J’attendray tant qu’il vous playra (3 voices)
Source: “The Garden of Zephirus”. Courtly songs of the early fifteenth century.
Gothic Voices, Christopher Page dir.
http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/hyp…
J’atendray tant qu’il vous playra
A vous declarer ma pensée,
Ma tres chiere dame honourée;
Je ne say s’il m’en desplayra.
Mais toutes fois, pour complaire a
Vostre personne desirée,
J’atendray tant qu’il vous playra
A vous declarer ma pensée.

Car j’ay espour, quant avendra
Qu’a ce vous serés acordée,
Que ma doulour sera cesée;

Je le vous ay dit long temps a.

I will wait as long as you wish
before declaring my thoughts to you,
my most dear and honoured lady;
I do not know if I will suffer for it.
Nevertheless, in deference to
you whom I so desire,
I will wait as long as you wish
before declaring my thoughts to you.

For I hope, when the time comes
when you will agree to this,
that my grief will be ended;
I told you this long ago.

Video Links

The Hidden World Of The Ottoman Imperial Harem | Harem | Chronicle – Chronicle – Medieval History Documentaries
The Harem has long been shrouded by mystery and erotic fantasies. In the 16th century the Turkish city of Istanbul was ruled by Suleyman the Magnificent. The center of his power was Topkapi Palace – at the heart of which was the harem. Into it came hundreds of women from all over the empire and beyond. It was a place where sex could equal power.
This documentary tells the story of how some of these women came to play a pivotal role in running the world’s largest empire from inside the mysterious and sometimes violent world of the Harem.

Abduction, Marriage and Consent in the Middle Ages – Medievalists – What did it mean to abduct your fiancé? Lucie Laumonier talks with Chanelle Delameillieure about marriage and consent in the late medieval Low Countries. Chanelle is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leuven, in Belgium, currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University in the United States. We learn that consented abductions were a thing, but that they could lead to contentious outcomes!

Vikings and Victorians – Royal University of the Midrealm – RUM – Lord Ceadda of Fox Hall discusses the Victorian interpretation of the Viking Age.

Walk Around York’s Hidden Medieval (and Roman) Gems! – The Welsh Viking – York is a beautiful, medieval city filled with magnificent famous buildings! The Minster! The abbey! Stonegate! Jorvik Viking centre!
So let’s ignore them completely and take a little walk around the city to some of the less well-known places, and maybe one or two that you might have seen before!
A beautiful Yorkshire day calls for a video of some of the bits of town that I always love to visit whenever I’m in York. I hope you enjoy them too!

The perils of childbirth, with Christian Laes – Medievalists – A conversation with Christian Laes about one of the most joyous, dangerous, and often tragic, moments of life in antiquity and the Middle Ages: childbirth. We discuss the sad fact of infant mortality, the first days of children who survived, and the difficult choices that families had to make if the mother did not survive, but the child did. What was the emotional and demographic impact of the perils of childbirth?
The conversation is based on two of Christian’s papers, ‘Infants between Biological and Social Birth in Antiquity,’ Historia 63 (2014), 364-383; and ‘Motherless Infancy in the Roman and the Late Ancient World,’ in the volume Missing Mothers: Maternal Absence in Antiquity (Leuven 2021), 15-41.
Get the show notes at https://www.medievalists.net/2022/03/the-perils-of-childbirth-with-christian-laes/

New and Updated Pages

Menu plan for the Feast – https://wordpress.com/page/housecapuchin.com/21447 There are lots of food pages linked to this and lots of pictures. I’m not sure which are new or not, so try the links.

Main Dishes and Sides – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-5A9

Funnies

From Luara Baseler (used with permission) Monday conversations with someone who is not a SCA-dian…
Them: Hi! How was your weekend?
Me: Pretty quiet actually.
Them: oh yeah? What did you do?
Me: Completely mocked up a new dress pattern from start to finish to make sure I was comfortable with the construction process and knew exactly how much of the good fabric I needed to order (Roman of course ). Started a full document review. Babysat one of the cutest toddlers on the planet. Made 20 lbs of marzipan, downloaded some new research, and started organizing what I need to pack for my trip next weekend.
Them: (blink) (blink) that’s a “quiet” weekend?
Me: oh yes, it was really quite relaxing.
Them: if that’s a quiet weekend, what do you do on busy weekends?
Me: (picturing being at an event) lol that’s a long story

March 15, 2022 0

Activities through 3-6-22

It was a quiet week, but a scramble for Anja and Loren to get caught up at their shop, so not much happened with the feast pages. We *will* get there!

Still no Herbs Workshop this week, but Sewing had one mundane needing embroidery help. The cold this week has eaten a lot of the early garden stuff, but quite a bit (lettuces? Wow!) has definitely survived, even if the peas gave up.

2nd week was a little less crazy. No Herbs. No one for Sewing, but we’re doing some cookery that will be completed for next week’s report. We’re out of some of the staple sauces: mushroom catsup, beet and horseradish relish and horseradish mustard, so we’re starting to get those made up.

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 7am-9pm, doing incense
Herb Workshop, In the Garden – Irregularly scheduled. Please ask to join the facebook chat!
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, 1 to 5pm
Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Potluck – 3/20, 4/17, 515, 6/19
Winter Feast LVI, Norse Theme. Page here – https://housecapuchin.com/winter-feast/winter-feast-norse-feast-as-lvi-february-2022/ More pages coming!

Misc – FROM KINGDOM SENESCHAL’S DESK – AN TIR COVID POLICIES: EFFECTIVE MARCH 15, 2022** – Post by: Attia Prima in Announcements
Due to changes in State and local regulations, the SCA’s COVIDSafe policy will be discontinued in An Tir effective March 15, 2022. This means event attendees will no longer have to show their Proof of Vaccination Card or Negative COVID test result to enter SCA activities . (However, all current BC regulations will still apply to any events located in BC.)
Automatic suspension of Branch or Kingdom Activities due to a positive COVID test will be discontinued effective March 15, 2022.
(for more: https://antir.org/announcements/from-kingdom-seneschals-desk-an-tir-covid-policies-effective-march-15-2022/?fbclid=IwAR26TgcWrIJi638Yqab3YTf-WAqz7_3U6J90sSYrv5ntwTEiCJOTQ7WZ10M )

Virtual Court – Not – a – Founding Revel

Summits Bardic and A&S competition

Court stuff

A&S The 3 competitors for Bard of the Summits swearing their Oaths

A&S the seven competitors for alpine scholar swearing their oath

Arnora Durinsdottir Thunderhand – Grail of the Summits – A&S

Iurii Victorev Belogorski receiving the Lark and Mountain

Lorenzo di Leone Salvini – Grail of Summits – Service

Melisande de Frayne receiving a Grail of the Summits

Displays (these are only a few. Lots more on the Summits Facebook group, including bardic entries!)

I have the two courts here, but they were posted on Facebook, not Youtube, so I don’t know if the links will work. I’ll try to get this fixed, ASAP.

Opening court of Summits A&S&B. – https://www.facebook.com/groups/7318726253/?multi_permalinks=10158569559531254&notif_id=1646602199305775&notif_t=group_activity&ref=notif

Court at Summits Arts and Sciences and Bardic – https://www.facebook.com/groups/7318726253/?multi_permalinks=10158569641696254&notif_id=1646606919716548&notif_t=group_activity&ref=notif

Events

SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2022 AT 9 AM – Summits Arts & Science and Bardic – Event by Principality of the Summit – Scottish Rite Center Klamath Falls (In-person and virtual!)
Come join Their Alpine Highnesses as the new Alpine Scholar and Bardic Champion. https://www.facebook.com/events/1520630534978195

March 11-13th, 2022 The West Coast Culinary Symposium is coming to Caid. It is a full weekend up at a Camp Wrightwood of culinary classes, hands on workshops, lectures and all things food (and drink). People from all parts of the Knowne World, from beginners to advanced cooks, travel to enjoy being around like-minded foodies and to geek out about historical cooking. All are welcome and encouraged to come and enjoy the event! Registration for this event is currently happening with early registration discounts up until January 3rd, 2022. All those that are wanting to either reserve a bed for the weekend or day trip, need to please register in advance. Registration link to Google Form: https://forms.gle/n2mDJbFihKLBoMAG6If you are wanting more details and updates on this event, please check out the FB event and add yourself to it as interested. FB Event link: https://fb.me/e/S6hsNi2N Hope to see you all there!

Classes, etc. –

Saint Olga of Kyiv is Ukraine’s patron saint of both defiance and vengeance – https://theconversation.com/saint-olga-of-kyiv-is-ukraines-patron-saint-of-both-defiance-and-vengeance-178019

Using the An Tir A&S Judging Forms, Wulfstan Meistari Hrafnsson – Barony of Terra Pomaria – Wulfstan Meistari Hrafnsson (OL) teaches us how to using the the Kingdom A&S judging sheet or “the Rubrics”.
This class demystifies what the judges are looking for when judging your Arts and Sciences Competition Entries. The information in this class is required the for Judging competitions using the Kingdoms form.
With this little knowledge take your next project or to new heights!

Henry VII’s 1486 Progress to York – The Tudor Travel Guide – Henry VII’s 1486 Progress to York – Join me outside York Minster to hear about Henry VII’s northern progress to York in 1486. Learn about Tudor York, the royal entry to the city and why the progress was of vital importance to the new Tudor king.

What Happened To The Last Vikings? | The Vikings | Chronicle – Chronicle – Medieval History Documentaries – The voyages of the Vikings to Britain, Iceland and North America often obscure the fact that the Scandinavian warriors also ventured far to the east across Europe and parts of Asia. From Constantinople to Georgia, these were the last of the great periods of barbarian attacks. It left Europe transformed, ripe for the rise of the new nations that marked the middle ages.

Wearing Renaissance Attire In Lucca and Siena – Here Is What Happened! – The Creative Contessa – I spent two days wearing medieval clothing while exploring two separate historic cities in Italy – Lucca and Siena – and here is how people reacted! Also plenty of footage of beautiful sights – The famous Lucca city walls, San Martino Cathedral, Siena’s medieval city center along with its medieval city hall and amazing gothic Cathedral!

Environmental Disasters in Medieval France – Medievalists – How did medieval people deal with natural disasters? In this episode, Lucie speaks with Brian Forman, whose research focuses on responses to environmental disasters in three late medieval communities of medieval France. As we find out in the podcast, late medieval municipalities implemented a wide array of strategies to mitigate and prevent climatic catastrophes, sometimes religious, and at other times practical.

Early Week –

The freezing temps this week meant little happened in the garden until the weekend. Not much cooking or anything other than embroidery, either.

2nd week was a bit better.

Cookery – We did lose some of the herbs this week and a lot got nipped (see Herbs, below). During this 2nd week we started making some of the sauces that we’re running out of including Mushroom Catsup (and the mushroom spice that goes with it. Spicy Mustard and Beet & Horseradish relish are next.

A few minutes after getting all the mushrooms and salt in.

Horseradish added. See the puddles of liquid?

After a couple of hours of sitting and being shaken 1/2 a dozen times.

Fried cheese – Anja and Loren discovered another cheese that can be fried and tried it. We did it in the convection oven and in a frying pan (no pix of that, though). There’s some reason to think that this is a period-style cheese, too.

Unwrapped, no, it starts that way. It hasn’t been cooked, yet!

Measures in Medieval English Recipes – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318187958_Measures_in_Medieval_English_Recipes_-_Culinary_Vs_Medical

The Italian Town Where You Can Eat Like a Renaissance Royal – https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ferrara-italy-renaissance-food?fbclid=IwAR0CDnweEr62nnLmwmcWpUu_rPIUXh9DrVcEDnzIY5K2N3fgghDJ1gVEbZg

Medieval recipe experimentation, Part I // Cooking with the Contessa

Posh Gruel (Grewel Enforced, 15th-century) – Monk’s Modern Medieval Cuisine – Gruel was cooked in the great households of medieval England but it was not peasant food, but rather an enriched dish made using good broth, finely ground, tenderly cooked pork, and expensive saffron.
Here, in this video, I’m updating gruel, giving it a modern twist, good enough for even the poshest of your friends!

Sewing – Bookmarks, then late in the week some mundane sewing. 2nd week the same.

Sorry about the blur. These are week of 2/27

Sundials, etc. – Loren is working on sling-shots again.

Herb Bunch – It was cold the first week, but back to normal for the 2nd. We had below-freezing temps for 4 nights in a row and a lot of things that survived the snow gave up. Some things still think it’s spring, though, especially if they’re close to a building and under cover.

Sat. 2/26 – Giving up….

I hope the bottom end of the lemongrass is ok….

Horseradish bucket, but the garlic got nipped

Those *were* early blooms and fruits on the strawberry

Sat. 2/26 – Still planning on growing

Cardoons went under cover and they’re fine.

Sat. 3/5 – This week

One tuber has sprouted before we got it potted up.

Planted the dahlia shoot that started when we brought the tubers in because of the cold

See it? Red…. to either side of the large leaf

Garlic are up. Hunh… something’s been digging and they need more dirt.

The tiny horseradish that got scrubbed and fridged. We’re hoping it’ll come back.

That’s more iris and a lily in with the stinky bob

…but it looks like the lemon grass bought it

…and some of the lettuce

Remember that huge spider last fall? These are her babies.

Project Day – Ailantha posted early, “This is what 310 yds of fabric, plus 9 handwoven bedspreads from India, looks like. Measured and folded, ready to use. Let to sewing commence!”

Helen Louise said on 3/5, “Its floor washing day at our house. Also washing some of the wool rugs too… working on early tunic between cleaning.”

Recipes

Mushroom Catsup (plus bonus “mushroom spice”) – This is a product of the 18th century, not period, at least as far as the name. The methods all make sense for a period sauce, though, so we decided to try it after watching yet another Townsend’s video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29u_FejNuks ). Start in the evening because this needs to sit overnight, and then the dehydrating takes awhile. Makes about 1 ½ cups of catsup and 1 pint of dried mushrooms. Takes about 36 hours for the catsup and another 12 for the “spice”.

Ingredients

1 pound of fresh mushrooms
3 oz dried mushrooms in water to cover
two Tbsp of salt
several bay leaves (depend on size)
Small Crockpot
1 shallot
1 Tbsp horseradish sauce, or 1 tsp prepared horseradish, ¼ tsp cloves, ¼ tsp allspice, ½ tsp lemon peel, All to taste (suggested amounts, iow)
1/4 cup of cider vinegar
Cloth at least 18 inches square (best is muslin or old percale, cheesecloth wastes too many little pieces and lets too much through.) or coffee filter
Small bowl (2 cups or so)

Directions

Chop mushrooms,
Add salt and bay leaves
Let sit overnight with the crockpot turned off! Volume should reduce by about 1/3 by morning, after having been mostly full.
The next morning stir it well.
Chop shallot and add.
Add spices.
Stir
Add 1/4 cup of cider vinegar.
Cook on high for 1 1/2 hours.
Pour into a cloth.
Hang to drip into bowl until cool.
Squeeze hard, until the “waste” appears mostly dry.
Refrigerate the “catsup”.
Dehydrate the “waste” and save to use in soups, stews or as “spice” in other dishes.

Beef y-Stywyd – https://medievalcookery.com/recipes/beefystewed.html

This is a very simple recipe for stewed beef. The resulting soup would be excellent served with a vegetable tart and fresh baked bread.

Ingredients

1 1/2 lbs. beef
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/4 tsp. mace
1/4 tsp. grains of paradise
1/4 tsp. cubebs
1 medium onion, minced
1 Tbsp. parsley
1/2 tsp. sage
water
3 slices bread
1/4 cup vinegar
pinch saffron
1/2 tsp. salt

Method

Cut beef into 1/2 inch cubes. Place in a large pot with enough water to cover and bring to a boil. Simmer for about 20 minutes and strain, reserving liquid – I suspect this step is to help remove any scum that forms on the surface during boiling. Put beef and broth back into pot, and add onions and spices. Return to a boil and cook until meat is tender. Meanwhile, tear up bread slices and place in a bowl with the vinegar and enough broth to completely moisten it. When the beef is cooked, strain the bread mixture through a fine strainer into the pot, discarding the bread solids. Add saffron and salt and simmer until the soup thickens slightly. Serve hot.

The bread in this recipe is used as a thickener. If thicker broth is desired then use more bread, and if thinner then add water.

Source [Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books, T. Austin (ed.)]: vj – Beef y-Stywyd. Take fayre beef of the rybbys of the fore quarterys, an smyte in fayre pecys, an wasche the beef in-to a fayre potte; than take the water that the beef was sothin yn, an strayne it thorw a straynowr, an sethe the same water and beef in a potte, an let hem boyle to-gederys; than take canel, clowes, maces, graynys of parise, quibibes, and oynons y-mynced, perceli, an sawge, an caste ther-to, an let hem boyle to-gederys; an than take a lof of brede, an stepe it with brothe an venegre, an than draw it thorw a straynoure, and let it be stylle; an whan it is nere y-now, caste the lycour ther-to, but nowt to moche, an than let boyle onys, an cast safroun ther-to a quantyte; than take salt an venegre, and cast ther-to, an loke that it be poynaunt y-now, and serue forth.

Miscellaneous pix

http://irisharchaeology.ie/2019/02/a-medieval-heart-shaped-reliquary-from-cork-city/

CARN BREA CASTLE , 14th century, UK 🇬🇧 Carn Brea Castle on Carn Brea is a 14th-century grade II listed granite stone building, which was extensively remodelled in the 18th century as a hunting lodge in the style of a castle for the Basset family. The building is in private use as a restaurant. It is next to the site of the oldest neolithic settlement discovered so far in Cornwall. The castle was originally built as a chapel, in 1379, thought to be dedicated to St Michael. It has an irregular layout with four rectangular turrets round a core of the same height and an embattled parapet. The building is built into a large stone outcrop with a steep drop on the rear on the huge uncut granite boulders that make up part of its foundations, giving the impression of the building melting into the land. It measures 60 by 10 feet (18.3 by 3.0 m). In 1835 the castle started being used as a beacon for ships. It’s stunning position means that it is visible from miles around and for much of coast between St Ives and St. Agnes. The building was classed by English Heritage as grade II listed in 1975.

Attire’s Mind – This extraordinary object is a gold hairnet. It comes from the later 3rd century BCE from the Greek city of Taras, (Taranto, South Italy). It is made entirely of yellow gold in a netting pattern with cabochon garnets at the intersections and a large bas-relief image of Medusa at the top. This would have been worn over a coil of hair either at the lower or center back of the head, and held in place with pins. That such a thing survives at all, and in such splendid condition is a wonder to be sure.Collection of the Altes Museum, Berlin.

Music

Italian Reniassance: Pentamerone – “Tu sai che la cornacchia” – Eric Boulanger – Question to all listeners: is this medieval or renaissance music? I wonder…

In 1634, in Naples, Giambattista Basile published Pentamerone or “lo cunto de li cunte”, The Tale of Tales, consisting of works combining story telling, together with music, dance and acting. They consist of streets and taverns songs in Napoli that were so popular that court musicians transcribed the music and arranged it according to musical fashions and rules of that period. They were entertaining, yet also used to spread moral and ethical principles. “With his book, Basile gave life to the genre of the Fairy Tale which, accepted with enthusiasm by his readers and later on adopted by the Grimm brothers and Perrault, will spread like a wildfire all over Europe.”
« Tu sai che la cornacchia «
Passaro Bernaldino detto Velardiniello
Source: « Pentameron »
Ensemble Oni Wytars.
https://www.oniwytars.de/en/cds

Tu sai che la cornacchia ha chest’ausanza :
ca quando canta sempre dice crai.
Crai crai*, tu perzì accusì me fai,
tu perzì accusì me fai donna scortese
che dai belli parole e tristi attese.
Auciello ca prumitt’a la speranza
e le promesse sue nun tene mai.
Tu sì madonna a questa simiglianza,
sempre me dice aspecta ch‘avarrai.
Sai comme disse Pinta a Carmosina:
«megli‘hoggi l’ovo che crai la gallina»…
*crai = domani

You know, the crow has this habit:
when she sings she always says “crai”
Crai crai* that’s what you say to me
you unkind lady, you give me
nice words but sad expectations.
A bird that promises hope
and never keeps its promises
You, my lady, are truly like that bird;
you always say to me: “Wait a little more”
You know what Pinta said to Carmosina:
“Better today the egg than tomorrow the hen”
*crai = tomorrow

Thomas Campion: Jack and Joan – Passamezzo – A lutesong by Thomas Campion. – From Two Bookes of Ayres, 1613

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Christopher Goodwin: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: renaissance violin

Iacke and Ione they thinke no ill,
But louing liue, and merry still ;
Doe their weeke dayes worke, and pray
Deuotely on the holy day :
Skip and trip it on the greene,
And help to chuse the Summer Queene :
Lash out, at a Country Feast,
Their siluer penny with the best.

Well can they iudge of nappy Ale,
And tell at large a Winter tale ;
Climb vp to the Apple loft,
And turne the Crabs till they be soft.
Tib is all the fathers ioy,
And little Tom the mothers boy.
All their pleasure is content ;
And care, to pay their yearely rent.

Ione can call by name her Cowes,
And decke her windowes with greene boughs ;
Shee can wreathes and tuttyes make,
And trimme with plums a Bridall Cake.
Iacke knowes what brings gaine or losse ;
And his long Flaile can stoutly tosse :
Make the hedge, which others breake,
And euer thinkes what he doth speake.

Now, you Courtly Dames and Knights,
That study onely strange delights ;
Though you scorne the home-spun gray,
And reuell in your rich array :
Though your tongues dissemble deepe,
And can your heads from danger keepe ;
Yet, for all your pompe and traine,
Securer liues the silly Swaine.

From Passamezzo’s CD ‘In Peascod Time’
https://passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album…

Link – Who Says Michelangelo Was Right? Conflicting Visions of the Past in Early Modern Prints – https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/who-says-michelangelo-was-right-conflicting-visions-of-the-past-in-early-modern-prints

Video Links

The Shocking Mass Burial Of Britain’s Bloodiest Battle | Blood Red Roses | Chronicle – Chronicle – Medieval History Documentaries – The Battle of Towton in North Yorkshire, fought during the Wars of the Roses, was reputedly the bloodiest battle ever seen on English soil. In 1996, a mass grave of soldiers was discovered there by a farmer. This was the catalyst for a groundbreaking research project, which included a study of the skeletal remains, the battlefield itself contemporary arms and armour. Join these archaeologists as they discover the true history behind this remarkable event and develop a fascinating insight into the life of a medieval soldier.

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks – England’s ‘oldest pub’ under threat – Hidden History – Trouble is brewing for ‘England’s oldest pub’ with links to an Anglo-Saxon king, English Civil War generalissimo Oliver Cromwell and a bloodthirsty banned ‘sport’.

Fun Facts About Monks – Medievalists – This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle dishes on some of the ways medieval monks could be silly, petty, clever and compassionate. Here are some of the fun facts that made it – and didn’t make it – into her new book, How to Live Like a Monk.

Funnies

George Slade the Dragoon – There once was a lazy Knight who maintained his flags on short poles, for to be easier to raise, he said.
The King got wind of this and gifted the Knight with a set of overly-long flag poles.
He ordered the Knight to amount his flags to them and raise them every morning.
Declared the King: Such is your pennants for having such low standards!

March 9, 2022 0

Activities through 2-20-22 Potluck

All week, the focus has been on getting the feast pages done. Once those are up, then the cookbook needs to go together. Anja is really the only one involved, but Loren is doing some of her work at the shop, so she has time. It’s finding the pictures that takes the time, because duplicating them on the website uses too much space. … but a lot of them don’t seem to be there, or at least a search doesn’t turn them up. No clue why.

The only workshop for the week is Sewing, at the moment. We’re having trouble getting things going again, now that the virus is abating, but people are still unwilling to go out….. We’re getting a few mundanes in the Sewing workshop, but that’s all.

Project Day is now open for in-person meet-ups as well as in the Virtual Realm! Potluck this month will be Virtual and Real-World! Herbs Workshop has stalled out with one person ill and one moved. Masks required. When will the rest of these open up in person? We’ll keep right on with the virtual ones side-by-side with the actual.

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 7am-9pm, on hold atm
Herb Workshop, In the Garden – Irregularly scheduled. Please ask to join the facebook chat!
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, 1 to 5pm
Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Potluck – 3/20
Winter Feast LVI, Norse Theme. Page here – https://housecapuchin.com/winter-feast/winter-feast-norse-feast-as-lvi-february-2022/ More pages coming!

Misc – TUTR – An Tir Royal Court – Kingdom of AnTir, SCA

Events

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2022 AT 4 PM – 6 PM – Silk Painters Zoom – Please join me for the 1st silk painters zoom session for 2022. Sunday February 27, 2022 from 4PM-6PM PST (7-9PM EST, 6-8PM Central). We will be talking all things silk and banner making. Please join if you want to learn more about silk painting or are an experienced silk painter. We welcome all knowledge and want to share the joy of painting silk flags! https://www.facebook.com/events/366701454793300

Classes –

Royal University of the MidRealm has 16 new classes up! – https://www.youtube.com/c/RoyalUniversityoftheMidrealmRUM/videos

Moneyer’s Moot – Barony of Terra Pomaria – Join the Barony of Terra Pomeria as we host Master Emmerich, Master Derian and Magister Arion (the old guys) as we discuss making coins in the SCA.

The Violent Rise Of The Viking Kingdoms | The Vikings | Chronicle – Chronicle – Medieval History Documentaries – DDuring the Viking Era, clans traversed the continent establishing kingdoms through invasion and warfare. The establishment of these kingdoms is remembered as the last of the great periods of barbarian attacks. It left Europe transformed, ripe for the rise of the new nations that marked the middle ages. Norsemen, another word for Vikings, conquered a quarter of France, half of England and a third of Italy (Episode 4 of 5)

A Brief History Of Henry Tudor – Henry VII Of England – Brief History

The Nine Year Old King Who Replaced Henry VIII | Edward VI: Boy King | Chronicle – Chronicle – Medieval History Documentaries – Often remembered as the “Forgotten Tudor King”, Edward was just nine his father, King Henry VIII died and the young boy became King. Surrounded by advisors, he became further distanced from his beloved elder sister Mary. But by now they were divided not just by power and status, but also by faith. Mary was a staunch Catholic, Edward a reforming Protestant and the first Protestant King. In the Tudor world, such matters were not an issue of personal choice but matters of life or death, treason or heresy.

The Shipwreck Mystery Of The Mary Rose | Ghosts Of The Mary Rose | Chronicle – Chronicle – Medieval History Documentaries – In 1545, during the Battle of Solent, the Mary Rose ship sunk with Henry VIII watching on. However exactly how the ship sunk has puzzled historians for centuries. The Mary Rose was almost unique in that human remains were found scattered though out the ship. Join us as a group scientists work to try and identify these remains and understand their role on board ship.

Early Week – Other than working in the garden on Tuesday, pretty much this was just finding pictures.

Cookery –

Ancient Rome’s Naked Fertility Festival – Tasting History with Max Miller

Secret Foods of the Spanish Inquisition – Tasting History with Max Miller

Sewing – More bookmarks. This is the current one. I think there are two or three more that haven’t been photographed yet, but they’re already in the “to be finished” pile, so unavailable, at the moment.

Dressing Renaissance to visit Siena! – The Creative Contessa

The 500-year-old wall hanging at Berkeley Castle #shorts – The Tudor Travel Guide – Rare Tudor wall hanging at Berkeley Castle – Berkeley Castle is a castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. The castle’s origins date back to the 11th century, and it has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.

Sundials, etc. –

Molding Primitive “Plastic” – Horn Spoons in Early America

Hand-Make Your Own Leather Storage Box – Skills & Trades – (see the misc. section for some leather pincushions!)

Herb Bunch – After planted with Sasha’s help on Tuesday (walking onion, garlic, nasturtium) weeding was the main thing this week, and then right at the end of the week prepping for more serious cold. We’re looking at temps in the 20’s to low 30’s for several nights in a row, so the dahlia tubers went inside, since I haven’t had the time to get them planted, several pots went to the shop so they’d be under the eaves and close to the building, lots of greens got harvested and more plants, like semi-tender herbs, went under the table and porch.

Tubers/bulbs that still need to be planted

Project Day – Anja’s been working hard on getting pictures into the feast pages all week, and kept going during Project Day.

Helen Louise wrote, “Went to our lovely Baroness Ayla Roth fabric sale and scored so many fantastic yards of fabric. Some is for GoldKey and some for our family group garb. Just spending the rest of today making garb for GoldKey.”

Potluck – Since it was just Anja and Loren, we took the food home to finish preparing. This is Loren’s seed bread rolls, a rice pottage with chicken and dehydrated vegetables, plus onion, green olives, spenat, pickled chickpeas, pickled herring in wine with onion, dilly beans, white cheese, plus mead in the cup.

Potluck Menu – All on the table at once….

Loren’s seed bread rolls
rice pottage with chicken and dehydrated vegetables, plus onion
green olives
spenat
pickled chickpeas
pickled herring in wine with onion
dilly beans
white cheese
mead

Recipes – The only “new” thing was the rice pottage. I don’t have an actual recipe…. It started with a quart of chicken broth, then dehydrated vegetables were added: leeks, mushrooms, squash, tomato. Once those were softening, a cut-up onion was added and it all simmered for about 1/2 an hour. Before putting it into the fridge, the liquids were measured (about 1 1/2 cups) and 1 cup of Minute Rice was added. The rice “sets up” overnight.

Miscellaneous pix

Pincushion of leather – Mark Masters – Pattern by Leather Patterns by Www.dieselpunk.ro Used a “bubble” method to dye the leather.

Music –

French Early Music – Instrumental – Eric Boulanger – Musica Iucunda Siglos XII al XVII, Atrium Musicae, dir. Gregorio Paniagua
1 – « Ma Viele » by Gautier de Coinci (1177-1236) 1:13
2 – « Lay I » by Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377) 0:56
3 – « Dueil Angoisseux » by Gilles Binchois (c.1400-1460) 1:58
4 – « Entre Vous » by Johannes Legrant (active c.1420-1440) 0:45

The Thames uncased, or the Watermen’s song upon the Thaw – Passamezzo – A 17th Century broadside ballad about the frost fair held on the Thames during the Winter of 1683/4.

Jack Merivale: baritone
Eleanor Cramer: bass viol
Chris Goodwin: lute
Alison Kinder: recorder
Tamsin Lewis: violin

The Thames uncased, or the Watermen’s song upon the Thaw. To the tune of “hey, boys, up go we”
Come ye merry men all of Watermen’s Hall
Let’s hoist our boats and careen;
The Thames it does melt, and the colde is scarce felt,
Not an icicle’s now to be seen
Let’s pull down each scull that hung up in hall,
Like weapon so rusty, and row;
Let’s cheerly fall to ‘t if we have not forgot;
For the frost is over now.
Let’s set up our masts that stood like posts,
As props to our tents on the Thames;
Or signe-posts made with an ancient display’d,
While our oars were the great cross-beams.
Let’s hoist up our sail that was a side wall,
To hide Doll when with brandy she ‘d glow ;
Or a roof compos’d, you might else have been froz’d,
Though the frost be over now.
The town too’s gone that they waited on,
And the people flock’d to see,
It fled in one night quite out of our sight,
As the castles enchanted that be;
While country squire, whom journey might tire,
With wat’ry eyes cannot view
The street, a long way that he came to survey ;
For the frost is over now.
Not a horn can he buy, nor an earthenware toy,
His wife or his children to cheer;
Since Isis does turn her watery urn,
All the pitchers are march’d off here ;
Nay, on the Thames wide, there remains not a slide
On which he may whisk to and fro ;
He returns as he came, to his country dame;
For the frost is over now.
Let’s tune our throats to our usual notes,
Of Twickenham, Richmond, hey !
Sir, sculler, sir? Oars, sir? Loudly roar, sir;
Here’s Dick, sir, you won’t pass him by.
Instead of good ale, and brandy wine stale,
Let’s cry out, Westward, hoe!
Shall we Mortlake make, or for Brainford tack?
For the frost is over now.

From Passamezzo’s CD To Shorten Winter’s Sadness https://passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album…

Video Links

Sanitation in Medieval Paris with Emily Hutchison (podcast, audio) – Medievalists – Just how dirty was medieval Paris? And what did people do with their waste? This week, Danièle speaks with Emily Hutchison about sanitation in the Middle Ages.

Sienna’s mediaeval City hall, explored medievally! – The Creative Contessa

Funnies

February 21, 2022 0

Activities through 2-13-22 Virtual Winter Feast

With all the activity this week focused on our Virtual Feast, not a lot else has been happening! This coming week, though, there’s an “Herbs in the Garden” on Wednesday, since we have a great big bundle of dahlia tubers to plant, and while there’s still no Thursday evening Herbs, there’s a Saturday Sewing Time. Feast pages are starting to go up, but watch for an announcement on Facebook for when they’re done. We have *lots* of pictures! Potluck this coming Sunday with that also being the deadline for Feast submissions!

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 7am-9pm, doing incense
Herb Workshop, In the Garden – 3pm Wednesday this week. Please ask to join the facebook chat!
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, 1 to 5pm
Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Potluck – 1/16
Winter Feast LVI, Norse Theme. Page here – https://housecapuchin.com/winter-feast/winter-feast-norse-feast-as-lvi-february-2022/ More pages coming!

Misc – Index of wooden object finds! You can set it to various languages – https://www.woodan.org/index.php

Events

Classes –

Feast Talk – House Capuchin Feast Menu with pictures – Anja Javornica aka Snihova describes and explains the House Capuchin Feast Menus with accompanying photos of dishes and information on how many are prepared with some history of the foods involved.

Early Week – Some garden, some embroidery, some small project stuff, nothing finished.

Cookery – Another frumenty, then a soup of dehydrated vegetables, and breads. No pix. We had a nice visit with Helen Louise on Friday that included some lovely Wensleydale cheese!

Payne ragoun: fit for a queen – https://modernmedievalcuisine.com/2022/02/11/payne-ragoun-fit-for-a-queen/

Sewing – More bookmarks.

Sundials, etc. –

Medieval Chess: Alfonso X’s Book of Games – https://www.medievalists.net/2022/02/medieval-chess-alfonso-xs-book-of-games/

New Medieval RoundHouse! Interesting that they took the destruction as an opportunity to learn about digs after fires! – https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2022/february/09/ucdarchaeologybuildsnewearlymedievalroundhouseafterarsonfire/

Viking Crafts Guide (Ep. 2) | how to make an antler comb | Viking Tutorial – RAMUNI – Viking Crafts and Living – I am showing you the process of making a reproduction of an antler comb from Viking age Haithabu. This time I welcome you into my small workshop and the video is filmed in modern surroundings. The next step will be to make a reproduction of a comb using only Viking age tools and workshop facilities. I suppose there is different ways to construct such a comb and this video will show you my way. This is the second comb I have made so I am sure I will get better and learn new ways and tricks as I go.

Herb Bunch – Monday and Tuesday were weeding. The hawkweed and thistles seeded in some of the buckets and are big enough to ID, now. A pot of garlics got planted on Wed. and Anja (stupidly) got the horseradish dealt with herself. She’s in pain…. Two roots to scrub and prep, one to plant, one tiny one to pot up and two to give away.

Wednesday

Replanted – You can just see the horseradish in the center, surrounded by the garlic.

Sunday

Dahlia tubers! These were gifted an Anja and will be potted this coming week

The chives, which two weeks ago barely showed in the pot are almost 6 inches tall!

Project Day – Other than Anja frantically finding and entering pictures into the feast pages this was a typical project day.

Anja and Loren started with garden work (see pix in Herbs, above). Anja opened the day to find stuff from Arlys, “I don’t know if I’ll be available later so thought I’d share now for Project Day. The front cover of the book in progress from last week is done. Now doing the back.”

“Front of book cover done. The bestiary story here is that whales will come up to surface and stay long enough that sailors will mistake them for an island and land there. The whale generally doesn’t mind, but does take umbrage when they go “aground” and start a fire. “Glub” becomes the word of the day and the whale blithely swims off.”

“The legend of the Whale in the bestiaries. The whale is a great beast who spends much time underwater but sometimes comes to the surface of the sea and rests there a bit. Because it is so huge, sailors sometimes mistake it for an island and land on it, which generally doesn’t bother the whale, but woe betide them if they make a fire on “land”! The whale plummets to the bottom of the waters, taking them and their ship with it, and all hands are lost to its wrath.”

…and Helen Louise, “Driving home from our beach day…” She also posted a bunch of food and garb pix, later. (…and a whacking lot of feast pictures!)

Stella posted some songs and a lot of pictures which are going into the feast pages.

…and then worked with Ailantha for a bit. Isabeau was also going to record her class, but had printer issues. She sent pictures for the feast pages.

Sash says, “Crazy week, Momma! I’ll try to get some pictures this week, although it’ll be late in the week!

Feast Planning – Page after page are going up, but none are finished. That will mostly happen Tuesday evening and then on Thursday.

Miscellaneous pix

Merike Joosep, Archeology & Civilizations – Castellfollit de la Roca is a town in the Province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The basalt crag where the town is situated is over 50 meters (160 feet) higher of its surroundings and almost a kilometer long. It was formed by the overlaying of two lava flows. The old part of the town is more than 1000 years old and is made up of squares, narrow streets and shady corners.

A lighted section of the Charles Bridge so that you can see the stonework

Music – Contrary to our usual period music this is the first piece in a playlist of fantasy “viking” music. Interesting stuff, at least. To use the playlist tap on “Watch on Youtube” in the bottom left corner.

New and Updated Pages – All from this week are unfinished Feast pages. Next week!

Funnies

Natalia Khmy – posted on Facebook 2/11/22 – British Army Humour – An innocent typo was made and all parties involved have gotten as much enjoyment as they could out of it!

Lt. Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long fulfilling career. On the day that he retired he received a letter from the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence setting out details of his pension and, in particular, the tax-free ‘lump sum’ award, (based upon completed years of service), that he would receive in addition to his monthly pension. The letter read,

“Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren,

We write to confirm that you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lt Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366.

Accordingly your lump sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. You will receive a cheque for this amount in due course.

Yours sincerely
Army Paymaster”

Colonel Maclaren replied;
“Dear Paymaster,

Thank you for your recent letter confirming that I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month.

I note however that you have calculated my lump sum to be £68, 500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III.

By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations, my lump sum should actually be £6, 427, 586, 619. 47p.

I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course.

Yours sincerely,
Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Retd)”

A month passed by and then in early April, a stout manilla envelope from the Ministry of Defence in Edinburgh dropped through Col. Maclaren’s letter box, it read:

“Dear Lt Colonel Maclaren,

We have reviewed the circumstances of your case as outlined in your recent letter to us dated 8th March inst. We do indeed confirm that you were commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards by King Edward III at Edinburgh Castle on 1st February 1366, and that you served continuously for the following 635 years and 1 month.

We have re-calculated your pension and have pleasure in confirming that the lump sum payment due to you is indeed £6, 427, 586, 619. 47p.

However, we also note that according to our records you are the only surviving officer who had command responsibility during the following campaigns and battles;

The Wars of the Roses 1455 -1485 (Including the battles of Bosworth Field, Barnet and Towton) The Civil War 1642 -1651 (Including the battles Edge Hill, Naseby and the conquest of Ireland) The Napoleonic War 1803 – 1815 (including the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War) The Crimean War (1853 – 1856) (including the battle of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade) The Boer War (1899 -1902) World War One (1914-1918).

We would therefore wish to know what happened to the following, which do not appear to have been returned to Stores by you on completion of operations:

9765 Cannons
26,785 Swords
12,889 Pikes
127,345 Rifles (with bayonets)
28,987 horses (fully kitted)
Plus three complete marching bands with instruments and banners.

We have calculated the total cost of these items and they amount to £6,427,518.119.47p. We have therefore subtracted this sum from your lump sum, leaving a residual amount of £68,500, for which you will receive a cheque in due course.

Yours sincerely . . . .”

February 15, 2022 0

Activities through 2-6-22

Progress from this week doesn’t show much. We’re talking to a couple of groups about summer demos. We’re working on the feast pages. We have ongoing projects. Keeping busy!

Please find our Virtual Feast Challenge on this page – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-4Sg

Not sure whether there’s going to be Herbs this week or not. I’ll be working in the garden, regardless. …and we might have an “in the garden” this week. It’s been sufficiently dry. Sewing has been all mundanes.

Project Day is open for in-person meet-ups as well as in the Virtual Realm! Masks required. When will the rest of these open up in person? We’ll keep right on with the virtual ones side-by-side with the actual.

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 7am-9pm, doing incense
Herb Workshop, In the Garden – Irregularly scheduled. Please ask to join the facebook chat!
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, 1 to 5pm
Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Potluck – 2/20
Winter Feast LVI, Norse Theme. Virtual only. Page here – https://housecapuchin.com/winter-feast/winter-feast-norse-feast-as-lvi-february-2022/ More pages coming!

This came up in the “mixed greens” bucket.

Misc –

Candlemas Virtual Court – Kingdom of AnTir, SCA – Her Majesty Rauokinn will hold a Royal Court with Their Excellencies of Dragon’s Laire, Arion and Kloe.

Events

MAR 11 AT 3 PM – MAR 13 AT 3 PM – Kingdom Arts & Sciences and Rapier Championships – Barony of Wastekeep – 2022 – Event by Barony of Wastekeep, Darby Le Clair and Jenn Harper – Red Lion Hotel Pasco Airport & Conference Center – The time nigh to those prepared and worthy contestants to vie for the title of Kingdom of An Tir Arts & Sciences Champion and The Queen’s Rapier Champion!

A fun Vid – Sir Bolverk – vikinghomecompanion – A No Shit There I Was story from the Society for Creative Anachronism involving a lady knight I once knew

Classes –

The Wondrous World Of Viking Weaponry | The Vikings | Chronicle – Chronicle – Medieval History Documentaries – The Vikings owe much of their success to the skilled craftsmen and women who made their sophisticated weapons and lightning fast ships. In this episode, we take a closer look at the weaponry and craftsmanship that allowed them to travel and conquer all around the world. (Episode 2 of 5)

The Scandalous Lives Of The Boleyn Sisters | A Tale Of Two Sisters | Chronicle – Chronicle – Medieval History Documentaries – The lives of Anne and Mary Boleyn are misunderstood. Anne, the beheaded wife of Henry VIII, has been both celebrated and damned, seen as both a schemer or a victim. Her sister Mary is less remembered and often dismissed as a fool and a whore. But what was the truth? This remarkable documentary goes on the hunt for answers, seeking out the fascinating truths of one of history’s most beguiling sisterhoods.

The Medieval Ass with Kathryn Smithies – Medievalists – Although you’d find them in cities and on farms, serving in wars and taking part in religious services, we’re not talking about people (or bottoms). This week, Danièle speaks with Kathryn L. Smithies about one of the medieval world’s most hardworking creatures and symbols: the donkey.
Kathryn L. Smithies is a medieval historian and teaching and research associate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her book, Introducing the Medieval Ass, was published in 2020 by the University of Wales Press.

Time Team S20 special – britains stone age tsunami – Reijer Zaaijer – Tony Robinson reveals astonishing new evidence that shows how, 8000 years ago, a huge tsunami swamped the east coast of Britain.

Make A Historical Leather Knife Sheath! – Leather Work – Townsends

Cookery – Late in the week a frumenty with cheese and greens got made, after leeks came back in at the grocery. This included plantain, beet tops, winter lettuce, bittercress, celery and dandelions as the greens. Didn’t get a plated photo, yet.

Starting – broth, wheat berries and leeks

20 minutes cooked. Drat, the leeks mushed. Spices added.

Icelandic Volcano Bread – Rúgbrauð – Tasting History with Max Miller

Sewing – Isabeau had 10 of the napkins done, as of Friday evening. She’s hand-sewing them. (Last one finished Monday, just before this went out.) Anja is still working on bookmarks and is even making progress on the one that had a mistake. Saturday’s workshop was just her and Loren.

Friday – Two finished, below….well, the embroidery is finished… and the “mistake” one is fixed and progressing!

Herb Bunch – Mostly weeding this week, but harvested a bunch of greens for a frumenty. We’re in a False Spring, so things are popping up!

Project Day –

Various people drop things onto the Project Day event page on Facebook, from hints about what they’re doing to pictures to funnies! Your scribe gets them into this report, scattering them through.

Early on Helen Louise said, “I’m just sewing away… will post pictures in a while.” …and later, “Busy day getting some gardening in, finished Elizabethan wool skirt, cut out Elizabethan wool jerkin, finished early linen shift and worked on pattern and hats for Gold Key at Egils.”

…and Isabeau had commented that napkin #11 was finished. (12 happened on Monday just before this was published.)

Anja was working on embroidery and the report and then finally got going on some necessary work on plants at the shop. After that she started a frumenty experiment which turned out to not work…. The dish was edible, but not what she was looking for.

Feast Planning – Anja is working on the site and planning for some more photos of feast gear and such. Lots of requests went out for photos for the Virtual Feast.

Feast page – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-4Sg

Miscellaneous pix

London Mudlark – It’s not just the pretty little trinkets that tell all the tales. I thought this looked like a quern stone (a stone used for grinding grains), but the stone looked volcanic, which didn’t seem right so I nearly left it behind. I’m glad I didn’t though. It turns out the Romans imported lava for quern stones from Germany, via the Rhine and the North Sea. It’s lightness meant that the Roman army could carry them as part of their campaign equipment. They were usually flat, fairly thin and dressed (cut with furrows to improve grinding), like this one, but they were also brittle and prone to breaking.
Lava querns were used extensively until the end of the 3rd century AD then had a resurgence during the Anglo-Saxon period, but from the 13th century the increased use of windmills and watermills to grind corn and a demand for white flour heralded change – the flour milled by lava querns was grey from the particles of lava grit in it. By the 17th century lava stones were mostly being used for malt grinding.
That’s quite a lot of information from a small bit of stone.

Music

Thomas Farmer: A Carol for Candlemas Day – Passamezzo – A 17th Century ballad carol for Candlemas (2 February), the traditional end of Christmas. – Like many broadside ballads of the time, the carol is printed without musical notation to go with the text. Instead, a melody indication of “Busie Fame” is given. This is “Busy Fame” a song by Thomas Farmer, first found in Choice Ayres and Songs, 1684.

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Robin Jeffrey: theorbo
Alison Kinder: bass viol
A Carrol for Candlemas-Day
Now Candlemas is come at last,
therefore my dearest friend,
Since Christmas time is almost past,
I mean to make an end
Of this our mirth and merriment,
and now the truth to tell,
He must be from our presence sent,
O Christmas, now farewell.
Now Christmas will no longer stay,
my very heart doth grieve,
Before from us he take his way,
of him I’ll take my leave:
It is a time none of the least,
as I the truth may tell,
For him we’ll make a worthy feast,
then Christmas, now farewell.
With nappy ale both brown and stale,
we’ll fill our bumpers full,
And pippins too as I am true,
they make the best lambswool:
So fast and smooth it will go down,
thy sorrow to expel,
And then at last when all is past,
Christmas we’ll bid farewell.
A Cabinet of Choice Jewels, 1688 From Passamezzo’s CD Old Christmas Returned https://passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album…

Riordan – Medieval drum dance – Chozz Art – Grabación estudio de Medieval Drum Dance interpretada por Riordan Irish Folk [Medieval Drum Dance studio performance performed by Riordan Irish Folk]

Links

Exploring the Origins of the Vandals, The Great Destroyers – https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/exploring-origins-vandals-great-destroyers-004307

Tollund Man – the preserved face from Prehistoric Denmark and the tale of ritual sacrifice – https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/tollund-man-preserved-face-prehistoric-denmark-and-tale-ritual-098888

Video Links

In the Bathhouse – IG 14tes Jahrhundert – A day in a late medieval bathhouse. – More information on the contents of this video can be found here: https://neuesausdergotik.blogspot.com/2017/05/beim-bader.html

Gainsborough Old Hall: The Best-Preserved Medieval Manor House In England – The Tudor Travel Guide – Gainsborough Old Hall in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire is over five hundred years old and one of the best-preserved medieval manor houses in England. – gainsborougholdhall #katherineparr #medievalbuilding

The hall was built by Sir Thomas Burgh in 1460. The Burghs were rich, flamboyant, and powerful. Gainsborough Old Hall was not only their home, but also a demonstration of their wealth and importance. Burgh was a benefactor to Newark Church and also the founder of the Chantry and Alms House at Gainsborough. Of course, the hall is perhaps best known as the first marital home of a young Katherine Parr.

New and Updated Pages

None of the feast pages for the “day of” are finished enough to publish, yet, although I’m hoping for Monday or Tuesday….

Here’s one that’s ready. If you aren’t cooking for the feast here are some things to buy (or easy to make) that you can photograph yourself eating, or just plated on your feast gear!

https://housecapuchin.com/winter-feast/cookbooks/perioid-foods-from-the-grocery/

Some inspirations