[Sca-cooks] Sundays in Lent

[Daniel Myers]

IIRC, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays were fish days, but not Sundays
- so no special dispensation would have been required.

- Doc


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> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Sundays in Lent
> From: Alexander Clark <alexbclark at pennswoods.net>
> Date: Thu, July 11, 2013 3:38 pm
> To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> 
> 
> I've been studying feast menus from around the time of Henry V, and
> have a question about them. Both Henry V and his bride Catherine of
> Valois were apparently crowned in Lent, and if I have the dates right
> (this depends on whether my sources agree on how to handle
> Julian-Gregorian conversion), they were both crowned on Sundays.
> 
> My question is this: Both feasts were almost entirely of fish, with
> one or two dishes of flesh. Does this mean that these Sundays were
> fish days, and flesh was included by dispensation, or did most of each
> menu amount to a voluntary fast?
> 
> -- 
> Henry/Alex
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