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Of Hony - A collection of Mediaeval brewing recipes
susan verberg
Of Hony, A collection of Mediaeval brewing recipes for mead, metheglin, braggot, hippocras &c. -including how to process honey- from the 1600’s and earlier. Period recipes with honey as the main sugar source are not all that easy to come by and many SCA brewers revert back to, or are not aware of alternatives to, the out of period but copious 1669 brewing manual “the Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digby Knight Opened”. Unfortunately, many recipes mentioned in Digby use ingredients and techniques not yet found, or commonly used, in our period of study. From my experiments to brew as true to recipe as possible, I learned that a lack of background into period harvesting and processing methods, and especially the quality of honey used, can have a surprising impact on the brewing result. I therefor choose to not only give you access to the honey beverage recipes I found through this manuscript, both in original format and in translation where applicable, but also to include the information on how to get from honey comb to clarified honey to honey liquid suitable for brewing. Sometimes the difference between an expected brew and a surprising one is in the details, and this collection is meant as a starting place for your own research & experiments into mead and honey beverages prior to 1600CE. For more, including new research, follow my blog at: https://medievalmeadandbeer.wordpress.com/ Includes 82 different mead recipes! 1/25/17 Second update. 2/12/17 Third update. 6/6/2017 Fifth update: 5 new recipes added. 6/20/2017 Sixth update: restructured & extended. 6/19/2018 Seventh update: bibliography & new recipes 1/17/2020 Eight update: new recipes, new resource chapter Have you found any recipes not in this publication? Let me know, and you'll be credited as its discoverer!
Journal of Apicultural Research
Are honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) native to the British Isles?
2008 •
N. Carreck
In 'Beekeeping in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the present'. Eds F. Hatjina, G. Mavrofridis, R. Jones. 2017
Beekeeping in prehistoric Greece.
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Bee World
Anglo-Saxon Riddle Hints at the Making of a Medieval Honey Bee Skep Hive
2015 •
Felix Hausleitner
Beekeeping in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Present. Fani Hatjina, Georgios Mavrofridis, Richard Jones (eds). Nea Moudania 2018, Hellenic Agricultural Organization "Demeter"; Chamber of Cyclades; Eva Crane Trust.
Georgios Mavrofridis
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(2022) Appiaria vel in civitate vel in villa: apiculture in the early medieval West
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Javier Martínez Jiménez
This chapter explores the socioeconomic role and nature of apiculture in the post-Roman Latin West, assessing the scarce archaeological evidence, the anecdotal mentions in literary sources, and the unexpectedly thorough legislation of the successor kingdoms. With this scant information it is possible to reach three preliminary conclusions. First, that honey and wax were probably more relevant in the early Medieval centuries than in the preceding Roman centuries. Second, that there was a shift in the legal status of bees from wild to domesticated animals, and thus considered private property of the beekeeper. And third, that while beekeeping and honey hunting remained a mostly rural activity, it is possible that beekeeping flourished in the less-dense urban contexts of the post-Roman centuries, perhaps playing a role in the emerging garden economy of the period.
Facta Universitatis, Series: Working and Living Environmental Protection
Impact of the Precision Beekeeping on the Living Environment
Mihajlo Milovanovic
Bees are insects of great importance to humanity and the living environment. Bees are the main pollinators and plants are dependent on them. Consequently, global food production is dependent on bees and their work. In order to have a healthy living environment, it is of great importance for humans to help bees to be as healthy and productive as possible. The relationship between humans and bees is more than 9000 years old, but beekeeping principles and tools invented more than 200 years ago are still in use. The new principle that taking momentum in the beekeeping industry is Precision Beekeeping (PB). This is an apiary management strategy based on the monitoring of individual honeybee colonies to minimize resource consumption, maximize the productivity of bees and improve the quality of the living environment. In this research, we analyze the state-of-the-art systems for Precision Beekeeping. We make a comparative analysis of commercial solutions for precision beekeeping, with the ...
Thesis Invasion Of the Killer Bee
Lahoma Howard
This study is an exploration of the effects that the migration of Africanized honeybees has had on the beekeeping industry in the southern U.S. The Africanized honeybee has had a disruptive effect on agriculture and beekeeping during its long migration from Brazil where it was released in 1954 to most of the southern U.S. Utilizing both historical-comparative and qualitative interview methods, an applying a theoretical framework of food regimes, technological lock-in theory, and Bourdieu's concept pf Habitus, this study explores how this bee has impacted both beekeeping and agricultural systems, and why it is such a bad fit for U.S. farming. The findings from this study help to define not just how this bee is a bad fit for farming, but also illuminates why our farming practices may be incredibly detrimental to our managed honeybee colonies upon which we depend.
Beekeeping in the Μediterranean- From Antiquity to the Present
Fani HATJINA, Gene Kritsky
In this book we collected important beekeeping findings, historical and archaeological, presented by Israel, Turkey, Egypt, the Cyclades and the Mediterranean in general, covering 4.000 years course of beekeeping practice through the centuries and new findings in relation to the local bee races. The articles are based on the presentations from the First International Beekeeping Symposium on Cyclades- Syros, which was completed by a collaboration between the Cyclades Chamber- Greece, the Eva Crane Trust- UK and the Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER” - Div. of Apiculture. The Symposium in Syros was dedicated to the memory of Eva Crane and the book is dedicated to the memory of Thanassis Bikos.
Invasion of the killer bee : an historical examination of governmental, agency, and beekeeper response to Africanized honeybee colonization in the southern United States
2012 •
LaHoma Howard
