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Holford-Strevens, Leofranc, “Marital discord in Northumbria: Lent and Easter, his and hers”, in: Immo Warntjes, and Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (eds), Computus and its cultural context in the Latin West, AD 300–1200: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, 5, Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. 143–158.

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“Marital discord in Northumbria: Lent and Easter, his and hers”
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143–158
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2010
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The report that before the Synod of Whitby King Ōswiu of Northumbria sometimes kept Easter on a day that for Queen Eanflǣd was still Palm Sunday has traditionally been interpreted with reference to the conflicting rules about luna XIIII on a Sunday and dismissed as a mere occasional nuisance. In fact, this discrepancy occurred in over half the years of their marriage, but was never due to that cause; it was not the only difference in their Easter dates, and even when their Easter dates agreed, the king’s Lent began later than the Queen’s. The consequences not only for court life but for Northumbrian society in general are considered as the background to Ōswiu’s abandonment of the Latercus at Whitby.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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