medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Bill East wrote:
>
> Not so, O Magne Calendarie. Though various calendars may date Sundays
> as 'after Pentecost' or 'After Trinity', without doubt Eastertide
> ends with Pentecost, the conclusion of the great fifty days.
You know, it must be very comforting not to have doubts.
> This is a matter transcending calendars or uses or rites.
And, it would appear, dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
> Trinity Sunday falls on the Sunday after the fifty days of Easter. It is
> not, either in the Sarum Use or any other use, reckoned as part of
> Eastertide.
You know, there are those who would take umbrage at being misrepresented in
this fashion: I did not, of course, say that Trinity Sunday itself fell in
Eastertide. But this has already been explained.
John Briggs
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