Mind your medieval manners! Good table manners were much more important in medieval times than you might think. Here are some of the rules you had to follow at a medieval banquet... • Fingernails must be clean • No picking your teeth with a knife • No blowing on your food to cool it • No gnawing bones or tearing meat to bits with teeth or fingers • No drinking with food in your mouth • No noisy soup slurping • No scratching your head or spitting! D E H U Z K N J H Y Z X U O W V B S E S E S N A Y Y O Z J B C E N B R E A D M W V R Z D A P E D M F Y I X P A V U W P N J R H K E T M B V X N A G M Q N W B D P D W Y Z E Q N Y F U G V I W L B I I W G N T E J E S Y B Y D O W E L K M I J R T P W D F Z N S O V D Y K S A S A N N M D E X W I A B O P O N Z A H A B S S G B V L O W F N F I N G E R N A I L S F A M V S Z O W E S I W Q P H L Y R V F J E M F D T A N H D V W L I O E X I H U L J S O T F C B L MEDIEVAL MUDDLE MANNERS ~ FINGERNAILS ~ BONES ~ BEEF ~ BANQUET ~ WILDBOAR ~ BREAD ~ VENISON ~ MEDIEVAL ~ BEER Answers from overleaf: bread, pork, berries, fish, swan, cheese, venison pie: Design: Louise Rice Fermanagh County Museum, Enniskillen Castle Museums, +44 (028)66325000 [email protected] www.enniskillencastle.co.uk The Community Engagement Initiative is a partnership between the Northern Ireland Museums Council and National Museums Northern Ireland, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund