Dominicans preaching in an outdoor pulpit and hearing confession
in the piazza, by Girolama da Padova (1515). From Preaching,
Building, and Burying: Friars in the medieval city, by
Caroline Bruzelius (Yale, £35 (£31.50);
978-0-300-20384-4). Friars, the book maintains, took the Church
outdoors to laymen, which altered their relationship with the
Church, and transformed the growth and development of urban
spaces