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Please help me here: is there really a reference to monks drinking 3 (modern?) gallons of ale in the A-S chronicle?
Henk
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Van: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Namens John Briggs
Verzonden: zaterdag 14 februari 2009 13:35
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Onderwerp: Re: [M-R] Blessings on wine
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Henk wrote:
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> So; are you sure you got that right, John? Or do you mean by gallon a pre-
> 1066 size which contained far less than our modern one? Or is this also "an
> over-literal interpretation" by you of some local or regional rule?
Christopher Hohler was of the opinion that the effects of the allowance of
three gallons of beer a day were to be detected in manuscripts of the
'reform' period. [C.E. Hohler, "Some Service Books of the Later Saxon
Church", pp. 60-83 in D. Parsons (ed) Tenth-Century Studies: Essays in
Commemoration of the Millennium of the Council of Winchester and 'Regularis
Concordia (Chichester: Phillimore, 1975).] Hohler's reference for the beer allowance is the Abingdon Chronicle, ed. J. Stevenson, Rolls Series 1858, v.1, p.346 & v.2, p.279.
John Briggs
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