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

 46 LaCitadeSancta bishops on the vigil of Saint Praxedes ( 21 July).^187 Such largess was fitting for those of means, but Ital ...

TheMotherChurch 47  complain to Archbishop Ruggieri degli Ubaldini about court fees.^195 The bishop’s court sometimes poached o ...

 48 LaCitadeSancta feasts.’’^203 Cathedral constitutions required them to be on hand for such events and to be suitably attired ...

TheMotherChurch 49  as she lay dying, buried her at his own expense, and so incurred the wrath of the local inquisitor of heret ...

 50 LaCitadeSancta Reggio, Fiesole, Pistoia, Pisa, Lucca, and Volterra, although we lack founda- tion dates. Priestly confrater ...

TheMotherChurch 51  to the resident cappellano to give the sermon and to exhort the congregation to pray for success of the mee ...

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fig. 1 The Ecclesia Matrix: the duomo at Modena, nave, twelfth century. Image not available ...

fig. 2 The duomo at Ferrara, western facade after thirteenth-century communal additions. fig. 3 The duomo at Modena, door for th ...

fig. 5 The duomo at Ferrara, door for the city fathers, Porta dei Mesi, late 1100 s (demolished 1737 , vestiges visible above sh ...

fig. 8 The duomo at Fiesole, raised choir. fig. 6 Lion from the ceremonial Porta de’ Lioni of the duomo at Bologna, 1220. fig. 7 ...

fig. 9 The duomo at Modena, choir, ca. 1100 , and high altar, twelfth century. fig. 10 The cathedral missal of Modena, Saint Gim ...

fig. 12 The baptistery at Parma, ex-voto paintings, fourteenth century. fig. 13 Neronian baptistery, Ravenna, fifth century. Ima ...

fig. 14 The baptistery at Treviso, thirteenth century. fig. 15 The baptistery at Volterra, built after 1250. Image not available ...

fig. 17 The duomo at Padua and the baptistery, twelfth century, enlarged 1260–81. fig. 16 Octagonal flower bed marking the site ...

fig. 18 The baptistery at Florence, dome mosaics, installed after 1225. fig. 19 The cathedral complex at Pisa, eleventh–twelfth ...

fig. 20 The duomo at Ferrara, precom- munal baptismal font, before the twelfth century. fig. 21 Precommunal baptismal font, befo ...

fig. 24 The baptistery at Verona, eight-sided font, early thirteenth century. (photo: Gabriella Bovi) fig. 23 The baptistery at ...

fig. 26 The baptistery at Parma, font for individual baptisms, thirteenth century. fig. 25 The baptistery at Parma, eight-sided ...

fig. 27 The baptistery at Parma, frescoes, thirteenth–fourteenth centuries. fig. 28 San Giorgio, Brancoli, font, twelfth century ...