[Sca-cooks] Collections of canons from Church councils.
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Wed Jul 24 07:51:19 PDT 2013
There are various reasons for food historians to be interested in the
details of the various Church councils (synods): fasting rules, rules on
Christians eating with Jews, interdiction of horse meat, a mention of taverns in
the ninth century, etc. Not that this stuff is necessarily easy to find, but
it's there for those care to dig. And just browsing these can be
intriguing.
Unfortunately the most complete collection I know is in Latin:
Delectus actorum Ecclesiae universalis seu nova summa Conciliorum ...,
Volume 1
http://atilf.atilf.fr/dendien/scripts/tlfiv5/advanced.exe?8;s=4044264045;
Even this is missing at least one key article - which fortunately can be
found in this subset from the Carolingien period:
Concilia aevi Karolini [742-842]. 1
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k952415.r=.langEN
Luckily there is at least one collection in French:
Les conciles: généraux et particuliers
By Paul Guérin
http://books.google.com/books?id=fu88AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=edition
s:zgEE51o-OK4C&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tOfvUYDOFI-VjAKY_oG4BQ&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepag
e&q&f=false
And now I've even found one (I think less complete) in English:
Hefele-A History of the Councils of the Church: From the Original
Documents, Volume 3
http://books.google.com/books?id=yaJsAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=edition
s:ZuRMU0Axxk0C&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VubvUab5L6KOigLDyIC4Ag&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepag
e&q&f=false
These are all in several volumes and Google Books is quirky about which it
makes available (I've downloaded all five volumes of Hefele, but only see
three available just now). So keep trying.
Also, if you do find useful material in French or English, it's always good
to try and find the Latin and decipher it. Translations can be approximate
at times.
Jim Chevallier
Comparing early and late medieval food in France
http://www.chezjim.com/food/pre-v/comparisons.html
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