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Cities of God: the Religion of the Italian Communes 1125-1325 cities of god Cities of God the religion of the italian communes 1125–1325 augustine thompson, o.p. The Pennsylvania State University Press University Park, Pennsylvania Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the eBook. Unless otherwise noted, all photographs are by David Sundt. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Thompson, Augustine. Cities of God : the religion of the Italian communes, 1125–1325 / Augustine Thompson, O.P. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-271-02477-1 (alk. paper) 1. Italy—Church history. I. Title. BX1210 .T48 2005 282Ј.45Ј09022—dc22 2004015965 Copyright ᭧ 2005 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802-1003 The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48–1992. Contents Abbreviations vii Note on Style xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 PART I. LA CITADE SANCTA:SACRED GEOGRAPHY 1 The Mother Church 15 2 From Conversion to Community 69 3 The Holy City 103 4 Ordering Families, Neighborhoods, and Cities 141 5 Holy Persons and Holy Places 179 PART II. BUONI CATTOLICI:RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE 6 The City Worships 235 7 Feasting, Fasting, and Doing Penance 273 8 Resurrection and Renewal 309 9 Good Catholics at Prayer 343 10 World Without End. Amen. 381 Epilogue: Communal Piety and the Mendicant 419 Bibliography 457 Index 479 Abbreviations The references to published sources, especially city statutes or liturgical texts, would require confusing and cumbersome short citations if these followed standard forms. So I have used short descriptive tags rather than the actual titles found in the printed editions. For example, I use ‘‘Vicenza Stat.’’ for the collection published as Statuti del comune di Vicenza mcclxiv and ‘‘Bologna Stat. i’’ for the collection Statuti di Bologna dell’anno 1245 all’anno 1267. When the source has book, chapter, and verse or other division numbering, this is given before the page reference [e.g., 1.1.1, pp. 1–11]. When the date of a statute or document can be determined, I include it in parentheses for the reader’s convenience, as I also do for chronicle sources. At the first citation of a manuscript source, I similarly give the approximate dates of the codex and of the original copied, if relevant. This dating is occasionally silently corrected when library catalogue dates are clearly wrong. ACGOP Acta Capitulorum Generalium Ordi- glia, 7 vols. (Rome: Propaganda Fidei, nis Praedicatorum I: Ab Anno 1220 usque ad 1758–68) Annum 1303, ed. Benedictus Maria Biella Stat. Statuta Comunis Bugelle et Reichert, MOPH, 3 (Rome: Polyglotta, Documenta Adiecta, ed. Pietro Sella (Biella: 1898) Testa, 1904) AFH Archivum Franciscanum Historicum Bol. Pop. Stat. Statuti delle societa` del po- AFP Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum polo di Bologna, ed. Augusto Gaudenzi, AIMA Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, ed. Fonti per la storia d’Italia: Statuti secolo Lodovico Antonio Muratori, 6 vols. xiii, 4–5, 2 vols. (Rome: Istituto Storico (Milan: Societas Palatina, 1738–42; rpt., Italiano, 1889/96) Bologna: Forni, 1965) Bologna Stat. I Statuti di Bologna dell’- AMDSPPR Atti e memorie della Deputazione anno 1245 all’anno 1267, ed. Lodovico di storia patria per le province di Romagna Frati, 3 vols. (Bologna: n.p., 1869–77) Aquileia Constitutiones Constitutiones Bologna Stat. II Statuti di Bologna dell’- Provinciales Aquilejenses Bertrandi Patriarchae anno 1288, ed. Gina Fasoli and Pietro Anno 1339, Mansi 25:1109–32 Sella, Studi e testi 73 and 85, 2 vols. (Vat- AS Acta Sanctorum quotquot Toto Orbe Colun- ican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vati- tur vel a Catholicis Scriptoribus Celebrantur ex cana, 1937–39) Latinis et Graecis Aliarumque Gentium Anti- Bologna Synod (1310) ‘‘Costituzioni quis Monumentis Collecta, Digesta, Illustrata, della chiesa bolognese emanate nel si- 2d ed., ed. Godefridus Henschenius et nodo diocesano del 1310 al tempo del al., 60 vols. in 70 (Paris: Palme, etc., vescovo Umberto,’’ ed. Leandro Nov- 1867–1940) elli, Studia Gratiana 8 (1962): 448–552 ASOB Acta S. Officii Bononie ab Anno 1291 BOP Bullarium Ordinis Fratrum Praedica- usque ad Annum 1310, ed. Lorenzo Paolini torum, ed. Thomas Ripoll and A. Bre´m- and Raniero Orioli, 2 vols. (Rome: Isti- ond, 8 vols. (Rome: Mainardi, 1729–40) tuto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, Brescia Stat. Statuti di Brescia, ed. Fed- 1982) erico Odorici (Turin: Paravia, 1877) BF Bullarium Franciscanum Romanorum CCB Corpus Chronicorum Bononiensium, ed. Pontificum, ed. Giovanni Giacinto Sbara- Albano Sorbelli, RIS2 18:1, incl. Cronaca viii Abbreviations A detta volgarmente Rampona [CCB: A], Cro- all’istoria del ducato di Lucca, 7 (Lucca: naca B detta volgarmente Varignana [CCB: Bertini, 1834), 54–58 B], Cronaca detta dei Bolognetti [CCB: Bol.], Lucca Synod (1300) Constitutiones Do- Pietro and Floriano da Villola, Cronaca mini Lucani Episcopi, in ‘‘La sinodo luc- [CCB: Vill.] chese di Enrico del Carretto,’’ ed. Raoul Cremona Cath. Stat. ‘‘Gli statuti dei Manselli, Miscellanea Gilles Ge´rard Meersse- canonici della cattedrale di Cremona del man, ed. Michele Maccarrone et al., 1247,’’ ed. Francesco Novati, Archivio Italia sacra, 15 (Padua: Antenore, 1970), storico lombardo 30 (1903): 451–60 1:210–46 Cremona Stat. Dei documenti storici e let- Lucca Synod (1308) Lucana Synodus sub terari di Cremona, ed. Francesco Robolotti Henrico Lucensi Episcopo circa Annum 1308 (Cremona: Feraboli, 1857), 99–111 Habita, Mansi 25:173–98 Ferrara Clergy Const. 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