Immortal Meals #28: Freedom and Chicken March 29, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
The date, sometime in the 1440s; the place, the English village of Long Newnton in what is today Gloucestershire; the meal, a table of chicken; the host, Thomas Carter; the occasion, Thomas’s freedom. Thomas Carter had been born a bondsman sometime in the 1370s around the time Richard II was crowned king and the first […]
