The menu featured dishes and ingredients available to the fourteenth-century English: kitchen: chicken-barley pottage, cheddar cheese and dried meats, nuts, dried plums and apricots, fresh jams and brown, white and oaten breads. Beverages of choice were mead or ginger ale. The end of the meal was sweetened by apple-oat crisp, blueberry-walnut shortbread and spiced cakes.  

Throughout the fair, the participants presented their research on the personalities and social positions of their characters. By means of a formal annotated bibliography and an audio-visual presentation, each student brought us squarely into the medieval context.  Having been led in some Gregorian chant by the monk and a country round by the dancer, we brought the fair to a close with an original screenplay of the ongoing quest for the Holy Grail. Surely some residents of Fairfield County might have been somewhat startled by the sight of three fully-attired knights seeking their treasure at a local McDonald's, on a Bridgeport city bus and around the campus of Fairfield University! Click here to view more pictures from the event.