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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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h bells had an equal share in raising the prestige of the ceremonialliturgy, which charmed and captivated both the senses and the souls of itshearers, by the display of its numerous officiating clergy, by the solemngravity of its chants, by the noble simplicity of the vestments, and by thechaste and majestic arrangement of its ritual. Under the last Carlovingians the liturgy gradually deteriorated; less inthe East perhaps than in the West, less at Rome and Milan perhaps thanelsewhere, but everywhere the signs of deplorable relaxation and fallingaway were manifest. The choristers attempted to assume the privileges ofthe clerks; the deacons arrogated to themselves impossible rights of inde-pendence ; the priests despised the bishops, and too frequently the bishops,presuming on their power, had the audacity to disobey the pontifical decrees.This change and deterioration principally showed itself in the psalmody, inthe chants, in the adornment of the sanctuary, and in the dress of the 229
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Fig. 188.—The Triumph of the Lamb.—Christ, typified as the spotless lamb, with a glory roundhis head and holding the cross, is at the feet of God the Father; around him are the FourEvangelists, represented by their typical attributes, and resting upon wheels of fire. Thearchangels are bringing him their offerings. The firmament is supported by four angels.Beneath is St. John explaining the Apocalypse to his commentator.—From a Miniature inthe Commentary upon the Apocalypse, by Beatus; a Manuscript of the Twelfth Century,in the Collection of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot. ecclesiastics. The Byzantine methods of treatment, as applied to architecturalmonuments and to the various forms of Christian art, did something to pre-serve the traditions of the liturgy, but from the close of the tenth century till 230 LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. the twelfth much confusion prevailed in the Latin Church. It was reservedfor the Crusades, after a century and a half of adventurous expeditions, tobring hack

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