François Wallerich

Based on the unpublished writings of Franciscan Servasanto of Faenza and Dominican Aldobrandino of Toscanella, this article explores the characteristics of the ideal of prayer proposed to the laity by the mendicant friars in central Italy in the second half of the thirteenth century. After restoring the anthropological framework in which these practices were inserted, in particular the relationship to emotions and to tears, the article focuses on the explanation of the Pater given by the two preachers and the close link they establish between this prayer and the Eucharist...