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Ian Wei asked about texts for undergraduate teaching a while back. May I suggest the translation of 'The Chronicle of Salimbene de Adam' (eds./transl. J.L. Baird et al) (Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies, 40) (Binghamton, New York, 1986), pp.410-17? The passage includes: 1. A justification for confession to mendicant friars. 2. An excremental anecdote about how a woman got her revenge on a priest who tried to seduce her during confession. 3. A further story of a woman who confessed to a friar that after she was raped, she went to confession three times, and each time a priest raped her. The friar, needless to say, did not. [Pro-friar, anti-secular-priest propaganda in response to propaganda directed the other way?] 4. Popes have given the friars the right to preach and hear confessions. Salimbene is one of the most valuable sources for thirteenth-century religious history; his so-called chronicle has just as much right to be called an autobiography as Guibert of Nogent's twelfth-century 'Memoirs'. It is a pity that the Baird translation is not available in paperback. But unless it were to be slimmed down, I don't think it could be. Gary Dickson University of Edinburgh %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%