medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
At 03:51 PM 2/26/01 -0600, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>Would the list members be able to help me? I've run across a gloss in a late
>twelflth-century canon law manuscript referring to a cross "in ingressu
>civitatis". I thought that crosses were most frequently at
>markets and "crossroads"; but I'm really ignorant. A cross at the entrance?
Bruce,
The crosses were probably omnipresent. We do not recognize the
proliferation of medieval urban crosses because the continual process of
destruction and rebuilding characteristic of cities has eliminated
them. Crosses at gates would have been especially vulnerable if they were
set on streets too narrow for later traffic.
There is a study on this matter for Bologna: see Paola Porta,
"Croci medievali di Bologna / Medieval Urban Crosses," in _Medieval
Metropolises / Metropoli Medievali: Proceedings of the Congress of the
Atlas Working Group, International Commission for the History of Towns,
Bologna, 8-10 maggio 1997_, ed. Francesca Bocchi (Bologna: Grafis Edizioni,
1999), pp. 167-74.
--John
Howe, Texas Tech
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