Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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din front of the gates of thechoir. In Rome, and pro-bably in Constantinople,Milan, Treves, and in allthe larger imperial cities,there was in front of thechoir, between the stallsof the secular clergy andthose of the holy virginsand monks, a space (sena-torium) reserved for thedignitaries and the noblefamilies of the place.The solea was occupiedby the sub-deacons andthe minor clerks, whose Fig. 181.—Chandelier, called Chandelier of the Virgin ; the branches are of bronze, and the figureis of carved wood. (Church in Kempen, Rhenish Prussia).—From Weerths Monumentsof Christian Art. duty it was to intone the psalmody. One or two sacristies (secretaria) were 2l8 LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. placed at the sides of the solea. The sanctuary (Figs. 180 and 181), in whichthe holy sacrifice took place, was surrounded with iron or wooden railings, andcommunicated through one or three doors with the naves. The farther endof the choir was semicircular in shape, and is now called the apse (in Greek,
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Fig. 182.—Altar-piece at Mareuil-en-Brie. kongche, a muscle or cockle-shell; in Latin, absida; in French, chevet); aroundit were placed seats, amongst them that of the bishop, which was raised abovethe altar, and was visible to the whole congregation. The altar, which wasdraped and surmounted with the ciborium (a canopy of a cupola shape—Italian,baldacchino), was always placed in the centre of the apse (Figs. 182 and 183). LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. 219 Such was the material framework, the normal arrangement of the Greek andLatin liturgy towards the end of the sixth century.

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