Here is the link to the video we watched in class today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIJlFBAAjvE

Next week we'll be learning about religion.

The work of budding stonemasons

Here is the recipe web site I found last term to use a resource for our end of term pot luck.
http://recipes.medievalcookery.com/

Here's one for adventurous cooks.  It just translates the recipes so you still have to figure out the measurements for yourself.
http://www.godecookery.com/mtrans/mtrans.htm

I'll keep looking for more sources.

Welcome to a new term.  This is the movie we watched this week if anyone wants to show it to their families and/or friends.  I got it through CADL or you can watch it online here: http://video.pbs.org/video/1619317222/

Sellenger's Round or The Beginning of the World

Original instructions Facsimile of John Playford's The English Dancing Master 3rd Edition 1657

(Hopefully) easier to understand instructions:

As many couples as want to dance stand in a circle with the woman to the right and the man to the left of each couple.

Part I

A   Everyone holds hands and takes eight sliding steps to the left. Repeat to the right

B1 Everyone takes four steps forward to the center of the circle, then four steps back to their places.

      Face your partner, take a step to the right, then a step to the left, then turn around.

B2 Repeat B1.

Part II

A While holding hands, everyone takes four steps forward to the center of the circle, then four steps back to their                places.   Repeat.

BB Repeat B1 and B 2 from Part I.

Part III

A Partners face each other, take four steps toward each other until they are lined up right shoulder to right shoulder, then take four steps back to their place.

Partners face each other, take four steps toward each other until they are lined up left shoulder to left shoulder, then take four steps back to their place.

BB Repeat B1 and B 2 from Part I.

Part IV

A Partners hold right hands and walk eight steps around each other. Partners hold left hands and walk eight steps around each other.

BB Repeat B1 and B 2 from Part I.

Here are more links for more information on some of the other stuff we talked about today.


http://www.leeches.biz/leech-help.htm

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/10/1024_031024_maggotmedicine.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt

These are the sources I used for the first part of today's class.

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2002/crabb/history.html

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2002/crabb/history.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Flamel

http://www.alchemylab.com/flamel.htm

The last one has links to some of the things Nicholas Flamel wrote if you want to try some alchemy of your own.  I didn't get most of it, but you might do better and some of the pictures are pretty.