[Sca-cooks] Sundays in Lent

[Stefan li Rous]

<<< During the Middle Ages, the Western Church followed the Roman practice of 
observing forty weekdays of fasting (one meal a day general taken after 
sundown, although this was not a hard and fast rule) broken by Sundays. 
Even on Sundays meat and milk products were prohibited.  So the coronation 
meals likely represent normal Sunday fare with dispensation for the meat

Bear >>>

So we have any idea what this dispensation might have consisted of? Was it a pledge of some type? Direct payment to the bishop (or whomever)? Since we're talking about a coronation feast, I can see (mostly political) arguments for this dispensation being rather high or that it would have been greatly reduced.

Thanks,
  Stefan

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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
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