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The origins of feasts, fasts and seasons in early Christianity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bradshaw, Paul F.
Other Authors: Johnson, Maxwell E., 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, 2011.
Series:Alcuin Club collections ; no. 86.
Subjects:
Fasts and feasts > History.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Table of Contents:
  • Sabbath and Sunday: 1. The Lord's Day in the Apostolic age?
  • 2. Continuing traces of the sabbath in later Christian practice
  • 3. Sunday in the fourth century
  • 4. The Christian week: Wednesday and Friday
  • Easter and Pentecost: 5. The Quartodeciman celebration
  • 6. The date of the festival
  • 7. The development of the triduum
  • 8. Pentecost: the great fifty days
  • 9. Initiation at Easter
  • Lent and Holy Week: 10. The emergence of Lent and Holy Week
  • 11. Three weeks and forty days
  • 12. The development of Lent
  • 13. Calculating the forty days
  • 14. Holy week in Jerusalem
  • Christmas and Epiphany: 15. 25 December: two competing theories
  • 16. 6 January in the East
  • 17. 6 January in the West
  • 18. Advent
  • Martyrs and other saints: 19. The first martyrs and saints
  • 20. Mary: devotion and feasts.