[Sca-cooks] Road Trip, was: Lenten ideas for non Christians...

[King's Taste Productions]

Currently, it is 1206.  At least in my little corner of the universe.
Christianna
Dreaming of sunny Mediterranean vistas and tastier food...

I think I missed your time period.  Are you pre- or post- "excommunicate
everything that is a Bishop" phase in the 10th century (late 1000's?  I
am
interested in finding about the reactions in the 'borders sections' of
the
two rites, Eastern and Roman.  After the declaration of heresies against
each other, I am sure that the animus filtered eventually to the
educated,
but even longer to get to the common folks in, say Tyrolia, or eastern
shores of the Adriatic.  I postulate that the observances of Lent stayed
more or less similar for a century and then started to vary as more
generations understood the great schism and the ex-communications and
stuff.

Salerno sounds like an intriguing choice as it will have strong
influences
from Rome, Naples as well as the trade routes . . . no doubt Christianna
would hear all about it all from there.  Nice choice, I must say.
Wonder if
the brothers have a monastery set up there yet?

niccolo difrancesco