[Sca-cooks] Shifts in fasting in medieval France

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

I've mentioned in the past that fasting in medieval France was very  
complicated. I've finally had a chance to outline some of what made it so in a  
blog post:
 
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/07/shifts-in-fasting-in-medieval-france.ht
ml
 
based largely on the work of Le Grand d'Aussy, Father Thomassin and records 
 of various Church councils.
 
Digging deeper in fact, it seems like it has never NOT been complicated -  
even today, fasts and abstinence are not what they were at the end of the 
Old  Regime. And so my post, wide-ranging though it is, only brushes the 
surface of a  complex subject.
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

Shifts in fasting in  medieval France
_http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/07/shifts-in-fasting-in-medieval-france.h
tml_ 
(http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/04/beyond-wine-water-and-beer-what-else.html)