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[ppfuf]

3 days before the last of the ceramics for the Collegium Feast/Class must be painted and turned in for kilning. 12 days before March Crown. 47 days until Spring Collegium. I still have no actual plan for dancing or entertainments at the feast. The stage directions are not done. The class handout is not started.
But the benches are done, or at least out of my hands. A new volunteer has popped up for making knives, and another for hall clean-up. I found the right table for the butler's station, and a person who wants to keep it afterwards. The caving class last Saturday went well, I think. All the carvers have dismembered at least one chicken. Progress is being made.

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[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I didn't think you were dissin' my docs. I was just trying to point out when looking at period pictures of people at table, you have to sort through a _lot_ of Last Suppers, Wedding at Cana, Dinner in the House of Mary & Martha etc. Pictures of "real people" at table are harder to come by.
The other problem we have is, gluttony was still a big sin then. Just as we don't take pictures of people with food in their mouths, they didn't paint pictures of people with a lot of food on the table, unless they were trying to make a political or moral point. We're making some big assumptions on a few pictures. Iconographic evidence will only take you so far in reproducing an event.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

... still being amazed/amused at the grossed out reactions over there....

Interesting point about the iconography.