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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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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No pope was more capable than Gregory the Great (590-604) of unitingthe different and scattered elements of which the liturgy was composed. 220 LITURGY AND GEREMONIES. To him is due the merit of having been the first to put forth a revisedissue of the books of religious service, and who impressed the stamp of hisgenius on the Eoman Catholic ceremonial. Before him, however, PopeGelasius had collected the prayers used in the administration of the sacra-ments, and had prepared the first missal or book of masses. The latter wasremodelled and corrected by Gregory. The same pope gave a more orthodoxand popular form to the Antiphonary (Antiphonarium), sometimes calledCantatorium and Graduate, a collection of anthems for every mass in theyear; he amended and remodelled in the most skilful and learned mannerthe anthems that were badly selected and ill scored—endeavouring, after theexample set by Solomon, to impart a harmonious and dignified character tosacred music which it did not previousl

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