[Sca-cooks] Sundays in Lent

[Daniel Myers]

Sorry, I missed the "lent" part - must be running slow today.

That changes my answer to "dunno".


> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Daniel Myers" <dmyers at medievalcookery.com>
> Date: Thu, July 11, 2013 4:09 pm
> 
> 
> IIRC, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays were fish days, but not Sundays
> - so no special dispensation would have been required.
> 
> - Doc
> 
> 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > 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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