medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John: Many thanks! Bruce.
John Howe wrote:
> 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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