[Northkeep] Chickens and Lent

[Marc Carlson]

"Such animals contributed variety rather than significant quantities of 
meat to the diet. This was especially the case during Lent and other 
times of fasting when the strictures forbidding the consumption of meat 
were generally interpreted as pertaining only to the flesh of 
quadrupeds, thus excluding fish and fowl." -  http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/animal-husbandry-1-tf

Hmm.  Not to be critical, particularly on the eve of leaving for war, but I think that this web site may be worth some more serious consideration later, when everyone has more time, since it is presenting a detail that is dramatically at odds with more known sources.  At the very least someone will need to backtrail these sources, and figure out where the websites authors came up with their information.

M/D

> From: j.t.herring at sbcglobal.net
> To: northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:33:53 -0600
> CC: alineswynbrook at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Chickens and Lent
> 
> Now understanding that this search was done quickly this afternoon on the
> web and as many will point out anything on the web is suspect without proper
> research here is a link to the site and their suggested reading.
> 
> 
> http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/animal-husbandry-1-tf/
> 
> Astill, G., and A.Grant, eds. The Countryside of Medieval England. Oxford:
> Basil Blackwell, 1988.
> 
> Campbell, B.M.S. Commercial Dairy Production on Medieval English Demesnes:
> The Case for Norfolk. Anthropozoologica (1992) 16:107-118.
> 
> Dyer, C. Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge
> University Press, 1989.
> 
> Finberg, H.P.R., ed. The Agrarian History of England and Wales. Cambridge:
> Cambridge University Press, 1972.
> 
> Le Roy Ladurie, E. Montaillou. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.
> 
> Lucas, A.T. Cattle in Ancient Ireland. Kilkenny: Boethius, 1989.
> 
> Rivers, T.J. Laws of the Salian and Ripurian Franks. New York: AMS, 1986.
> 
> Ryder, M.L. Sheep and Man. London: Duckworth, 1983.
> 
> Trow-Smith, R. A History of British Livestock to 1700. London: Routledge and
> Kegan Paul, 1957.
> 
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> 
> Kindly
> Ian
> 
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