. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. lesiastics, throughall the changes of the Middle Ages, until the seventeenth century. The priest, when in the exercise of his holy functions, was not expectedto make any change in his dress. Still, from the fourth to the ninth centuryeverything seems to show that his proper costume was always white, orat least that it was so during the celebration of the highest Chrysostom, feeling the approach of death, and being anxious to partake of LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. 227 the holy sacrament, called for
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. lesiastics, throughall the changes of the Middle Ages, until the seventeenth century. The priest, when in the exercise of his holy functions, was not expectedto make any change in his dress. Still, from the fourth to the ninth centuryeverything seems to show that his proper costume was always white, orat least that it was so during the celebration of the highest Chrysostom, feeling the approach of death, and being anxious to partake of LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. 227 the holy sacrament, called for his white vestments, and distributed those hewas wearing, even to his shoes, among his assistants. The customs andtraditions of the West conformed in this to those of the East. The neophytewas stripped of his worldly garments, he was clad in a white or religiousrobe (habitus religionis), and was then considered fit to perform his , however, the white robes of the sovereign pontiff were adornedwith bands of gold or purple. White was not mixed with other tints in the. Fig. 187— Romanesque perforated Handbell, representing the symbols of the Four Evangelists(Twelfth Century).—From the Archaeological Museum at Eheims. dress of the clergy till towards the ninth century; the five hues admittedby religious symbolism date only from the twelfth century. Charlemagne, who was proud of his thorough acquaintance with theliturgy, who esteemed it an honour to wear, on high occasions, the greenchasuble embroidered with gold, and to chant the epistles before theassembled congregations, took the greatest pains with all the ceremonies ofthe Church; and it is an undoubted fact that the pomp with which theywere afterwards celebrated was inaugurated by him. Charlemagne and his successors, Louis the Affable and Charles the 228 LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. Bald, did not, however, content themselves with merely attending toceremonial pomp; they did their best to introduce a principle of
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