Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes 1125-1325
166 LaCitadeSancta of the candles ( 3 s. bon.).^154 But they still went in procession and offered real beeswax. And Florence, ...
OrderingFamilies,Neighborhoods,andCities 167 sions would take place. Crews scrubbed the cathedral inside and out.^161 The gove ...
168 LaCitadeSancta rituals. In practice, not every adult male had to come, but only householders and heads of families. The po ...
OrderingFamilies,Neighborhoods,andCities 169 of the Opera del Duomo. At Modena in the 1260 s, the districts of the city entere ...
170 LaCitadeSancta offered a large candle of ‘‘at least’’ ten pounds; city councilors each gave three small candles, while oth ...
OrderingFamilies,Neighborhoods,andCities 171 towns’ vigils or offerings, since this implied subjection.^192 At Pisa, the subje ...
172 LaCitadeSancta Processions, candle offerings, dancing, singing, and rock fights were ‘‘pop- ular,’’ insofar as they were o ...
OrderingFamilies,Neighborhoods,andCities 173 placed last in the horse race. The last contestant in the foot race got a hen as ...
174 LaCitadeSancta were a horse (rocinus) and a hawk, both rather aristocratic in tone. There were two pigs for second place, ...
OrderingFamilies,Neighborhoods,andCities 175 nicknamed the ‘‘baptism of bells,’’ each bell had a living personality that ackno ...
176 LaCitadeSancta Dominicans, Franciscans, and Augustinians, could ring outside of the usual order.^225 Some grumbled against ...
OrderingFamilies,Neighborhoods,andCities 177 for important events. Bolognese officials rang Master Ventura’s great bell to ann ...
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Chapter Five Holy Persons and Holy Places A Christian society produces saints after its own image of holiness. Commu- nal Ital ...
180 LaCitadeSancta from imperial tyranny. In Lombardy, Giovanni Cacciaforte ( 1125 – 83 ), first prior of San Vittore at Cremo ...
HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 181 period was the great age of the neighborhood saint.^9 Before 1200 , the trian- gular region fram ...
182 LaCitadeSancta theirs was not the piety of the city. Inside the walls, even inclusae— anchoresses—interacted with the worl ...
HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 183 and comfort, he sold his goods to benefit the poor and sold himself into slavery. Only when rede ...
184 LaCitadeSancta set up as an anchoress at the house of a relative. Only later did observers recognize her freelance holines ...
HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 185 Raimondo Palmerio of Piacenza (ca. 1140 – 1200 ) was able to initiate his life of penance and th ...
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