There were a lot of changes going on in the 16th century, and all of the religious backing-and-forthing affected normal people in ways we might not even think about. Like, for example, fasting. Fasting, you say? Yes. Fasting. You know, how Catholics give up meat on Fridays, Saturdays, Wednesdays, and all of Lent? Well, when the church started to shed the traces of Rome, it wasn’t as easy as just saying, “no more fasts.” There were economic conditions to think about too. The state of the navy. The availability of meat. Also, fasting isn’t just a Catholic thing. Most religious traditions recognize fasting for important reasons. So could Protestants embrace it as well? And if so, how could they do it in a way that didn’t make them look, you know, like, Catholic?

We dive into it in this episode..

Source for this episode:

Fasting in England in the 1560s: “A Thinge of Nought”?
Kaufman, Peter Iver. “Fasting in England in the 1560s: “A Thinge of Nought”?” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Ergänzungsband 32 (2003): 176-93.

Links mentioned:
Tudorcon – September 9-11 in Manheim, PA
The Tudor Planner on IndieGoGo – while copies are still available

Transcript will be up soon.

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