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

 426 Epilogue the gender ratio of the lay saints reinforces the masculine image of commu- nal religiosity. The popular communal ...

CommunalPiety and theMendicants 427  to the men, they outstripped them in sheer numbers.^57 Female foundations rode the coattai ...

 428 Epilogue late 1200 s, penitents under Franciscan direction emphasized penance; those under Dominican control, doctrinal or ...

CommunalPiety and theMendicants 429  were a virtual hotbed of dissent; the local heretics numbered 250. Inquisition records rev ...

 430 Epilogue There is no reason to assume the man was himself a heretic, or even a sympathizer. By the 1290 s heresy hunting w ...

CommunalPiety and theMendicants 431  gilupo of Ferrara.^85 Although a son and relative of Cathars, his neighbors were sure that ...

 432 Epilogue to find that it was a clove of garlic, Salimbene jeered.^92 Fra Aldebrandino opened an inquest, lasting from the ...

CommunalPiety and theMendicants 433  etics, and he harbored intense dislike for the friars. Whatever Armanno’s true beliefs, Gu ...

 434 Epilogue inquisitor formally condemned Bompietro di Giovanni, a pursemaker from the parish of San Martino dell’Aposa, and ...

CommunalPiety and theMendicants 435  every other execution the legal experts recommended took place, the rate of execution was ...

 436 Epilogue population.^116 Sometime between 1272 and 1273 , Giovanni rented a house at Ferrara in the contrada of San Romano ...

CommunalPiety and theMendicants 437  belief in Catharism, which had never amounted to anything more theologi- cally sophisticat ...

 438 Epilogue These, along with Aimerico, the lector of San Domenico, considered Bom- pietro relapsed. The canonist Bonincontro ...

CommunalPiety and theMendicants 439  was taken up with the arrest and interrogation of this more dangerous devi- ant. Giuliano’ ...

 440 Epilogue ated with heretics and given them fish.^136 Giuliano’s deposition may well reflect fear or pain—he confessed to B ...

CommunalPiety and theMendicants 441  have been focused on the loggia of the Arenga, from which the podesta would pronounce his ...

 442 Epilogue But others in the piazza were becoming hysterical as the mood turned ugly. Valeriano di Guido from the parish of ...

CommunalPiety and theMendicants 443  including a lay sister from San Domenico, Sor Migliore di Giuliano, who objected. Saviabon ...

 444 Epilogue the scaffold being prepared for the execution.^162 At San Martino, Donna Tommasina di Bonaiolo suggested that the ...

CommunalPiety and theMendicants 445  1297 , she made her will, giving as her largest monetary bequest £ 200 bon. for distributi ...