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Lent – a fast solution to a 200-year vegetarian push

Lent – a fast solution to a 200-year vegetarian push

by Talking Humanities | Mar 24, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Rare books curator Dr Karen Attar gets her teeth into one of Senate House Library’s recent acquisitions. As an undergraduate, I read Old Icelandic. In one of the mediaeval family sagas a character renounces meat for Lent, and people travel from all over Iceland to...

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