[Sca-cooks] Sundays in Lent

[James Prescott]

Fish day:

"A Roman Catholic fast day on which fish were permitted but meat from 
animals or birds was forbidden.  On more strict fast days, not even 
cheese, eggs, milk, or butter were eaten.  Fast days, and their 
strictness, depended upon country and century.  They usually included 
the forty days of Lent, Ember Days, various other religious days, and 
every Friday throughout the year.  Some people ignored these 
restrictions; some people obtained exemptions; some people observed fast 
days for medical reasons; and some religious people observed additional 
fast days.  Saturday is technically a fish day, though the Popes have 
often granted exemptions for many regions of the world.  Wednesday is 
also sometimes designated as a fish day, such as in England during the 
reign of Queen Elizabeth I."

My words, largely based on Herbermann et al. "Catholic Encyclopedia" 
(1907-1913) under "abstinence", online version at:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/


Thorvald



On 2013-07-12 14:53, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> <<<  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
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> Bear>>>
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> 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.
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