Pulpit (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Gerhard Gietmann · 1913
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Description
A pulpit is an elevated stand to preach from, taking its name from the Latin pulpitum, a stage or scaffold. This encyclopedia entry finds its biblical forerunners in Solomon, who prayed from a brazen scaffold, and Esdras, who read the law from a wooden step. He also called the stand analogium, from the preaching of God's word, and ambo, from the way it wraps around the speaker.
The ambo was the direct ancestor of the modern pulpit. In the earliest Christian age the bishop preached from his chair, a memory kept in the French chaire and German Predigtstuhl. From the thirteenth century, rood-lofts called jubé rose in France, placed with reference to cross and altar. Pulpits of the modern kind appeared in Italy just as early. Niccola Pisano finished the Pisa pulpit in 1260, an unattached work on seven columns that opened a new path for Italian sculpture.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Gerhard Gietmann |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |