. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. 2:7. free, but in the others,partitions six feet highcompletely divided offthe catechumens, thepenitents, the virginsconsecrated to God, themonks, and the mass ofthe congregation. At theend of the nave was thechoir (in Greek bema), infront of which stood thesolea (the cellar or wine-press, in allusion to whatwas called the vineyard ofthe Lord), surrounded bya chancel, an open-workpartition, in the centreof which one or moregates opened into theinterior. One or some-times two stands (c
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. 2:7. free, but in the others,partitions six feet highcompletely divided offthe catechumens, thepenitents, the virginsconsecrated to God, themonks, and the mass ofthe congregation. At theend of the nave was thechoir (in Greek bema), infront of which stood thesolea (the cellar or wine-press, in allusion to whatwas called the vineyard ofthe Lord), surrounded bya chancel, an open-workpartition, in the centreof which one or moregates opened into theinterior. One or some-times two stands (called pulpitum, pulpit), in-tended for the publicreading of the epistles,the Scriptures, and theholy books, were erectedin 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 solea was occupiedby the sub-deacons andthe minor clerks, whose Fig
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