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

 286 BuoniCattolici this the man brought to the hermit. That was enough, the holy man said. It was as if Jesus shed a single te ...

Feasting,Fasting,andDoingPenance 287  The ritual books of Bishop Ugo of Volterra and the church of Verona, both dating to the m ...

 288 BuoniCattolici in our period reveals just this kind of conscience keeping. There, on the blank verso of the last folio, th ...

Feasting,Fasting,andDoingPenance 289  Frequent, open, discrete, willing, contrite, whole as due, Holy, willed with tears, and r ...

 290 BuoniCattolici 1215.^117 Casuistic theory predates our period, but council decrees encouraged its pastoral application.^11 ...

Feasting,Fasting,andDoingPenance 291  refined food; envy included political sins, like plotting and flattery.^125 The system of ...

 292 BuoniCattolici he ate more than he had need for and so overburdened his stomach. Yes, he drank too much.^132 Since the for ...

Feasting,Fasting,andDoingPenance 293  tic rule, such as willfulness against her abbess. Even without ‘‘worldly’’ sins to confes ...

 294 BuoniCattolici tents on the use of magic and usury, on visiting prostitutes, and on leading the innocent into sin by corru ...

Feasting,Fasting,andDoingPenance 295  from Catholics by the rigor of the penances they imposed in confession. Only a Cathar dua ...

 296 BuoniCattolici in the garden. ‘‘Sir,’’ said the peasant, ‘‘I want to go to confession.’’ ‘‘When did you last go,’’ asked t ...

Feasting,Fasting,andDoingPenance 297  nion, because an illness had rendered her mute and unable to confess. Saint Filippo Beniz ...

 298 BuoniCattolici confessors for Easter.^173 The Dominicans, however, warned their preachers not to circumvent the law.^174 E ...

Feasting,Fasting,andDoingPenance 299  TheCityDoesPenance So Lenten confession took its modest place in the annual round of corp ...

 300 BuoniCattolici ances on these delinquents. These ranged from private fasts to wearing crosses, to fines, and ultimately to ...

Feasting,Fasting,andDoingPenance 301  the city, placing Reggio under interdict. The city passed new laws, forbid- ding merchant ...

 302 BuoniCattolici the d’Andolo`family struck down the priest Alberto de’ Gifoni as he cele- brated Mass in the church of Sant ...

Feasting,Fasting,andDoingPenance 303  compiled, with the help of their priest, a written general confession and sometime before ...

 304 BuoniCattolici ashes on their heads. As he did this, each penitent’s candle was extinguished. The bishop then either prost ...

Feasting,Fasting,andDoingPenance 305  a glass of wine on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. Each day they made a hundred genufle ...