In 2013 I wrote on a curious 15th century French clay beaker with rings that made a tinkling sound . Supposedly this was to draw the a...

It all began when we found a book on excavations in Arnemuiden, the town Anne was born. Among the finds at the harbours edge was a curious ...

When you attend a feast at the lords castle, you will need to behave and show that you have table manners. One of the things was (and s...

  A tinkling piece of pottery A reader suggested that the rings on the curious piece of pottery described in a previous post was mea...

The book ' Fêtes gourmandes au moyen age ' is a delicious book. Not only for its recipes, but also for the eye (e.g. a gilded bo...