Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Abbreviations

      Introduction

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

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