Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes 1125-1325

fig. 48 A layman at prayer, kneeling before an image of the Virgin, from Peter the Chanter of Paris, De Oratione et Speciebus Il ...

fig. 51 The Palm Sunday procession entrance at Verona, Pons Fractus, twelfth century. fig. 52 Laymen use their bod- ies in praye ...

fig. 54 Omobono of Cremona and Raimondo of Piacenza follow Bernard and Columban in the litany from a Paduan book of devotion. Pa ...

fig. 57 Christ with a ground line to cal- culate his height, in a Florentine book of devotion. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laur ...

fig. 59 The tomb of Rolandino de’ Passaggeri, Piazza San Domenico, Bologna, fourteenth century. fig.58 Holy women (Mary of Cleop ...

fig. 60 Site of the protests of 1299 : Piazza Maggiore, from the Asinelli tower, Bologna. Image not available ...

fig. 61 Site of Fra Guido’s condemnations, May 1299 : Arenga tower, Palazzo del Podestà, from the Piazza del Nettuno, Bologna, t ...

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Chapter Six The City Worships  To be a citizen of the commune was to take part in its corporate life. This was both an obligati ...

 236 BuoniCattolici of Bologna, who had fallen afoul of the Bolognese inquisition, to the ‘‘pen- ance’’ of confessing once a ye ...

TheCityWorships 237  All churches, except perhaps private chapels, had some sort of barrier or physical demarcation separating ...

 238 BuoniCattolici whether the holy man’s occasional failure to pray facing east might indicate heresy.^15 As the 1200 s progr ...

TheCityWorships 239  would devote the infant to a life of chastity. Raimondo kept the oblation a secret for the rest of his lif ...

 240 BuoniCattolici to get some clarifications on particulars from the celebrating priest after the service.^27 With relatively ...

TheCityWorships 241  sew instead. If a girl was to be a nun when she grew up, then let her learn her Latin letters in the conve ...

 242 BuoniCattolici 1 d. for the staff of a chapel.^42 At Lucca, failure to chant the Office was a major clerical transgression ...

TheCityWorships 243  minimum. The other small hours might occasionally be omitted, especially in churches with a very small sta ...

 244 BuoniCattolici They locked the door, but he kept finding ways to get in.^58 He took up sleeping on the bare floor of the c ...

TheCityWorships 245  which causes boredom rather than devotion, both to the congrega- tion and to the celebrants. Take, for exa ...