Pulpit

The pulpit (of the Latin Cathedra , the seat) is in the beginning the seat of a bishop in his church.

  • As a Piece of furniture, with the Middle Ages (13th century) this term indicates a seat out of wooden with high file and the full Accotoir S reserved to the host. It is without platform until the 15th century.
The pulpit symbolized the function of authority and teaching of the bishop, which led to two derived directions:
  • structures about it, the pulpit also indicates the platform of the preacher in a church;
  • the term indicates the post of a professor responsible for the teaching of a matter in the university education.

Until the 17th century, one used indifferently the words “pulpit” or “chair”, the distinction between the two terms not being definitively fixed at that time. It would seem that the invaluable language of this time refused the “hard” consonants, regarded as too vulgar.

Site of the pulpit in a church

Interior pulpit

Architecturalement, a Église is a big room who can receive a public many, massed in the Nef (the long part of the church). The pulpit is a point from where one can apply to this public, at one time when the microphone did not exist. It is generally in the middle of the nave, along a wall or of a pillar, so that the preacher can be understood by the most possible world.

Traditionally, it is “side of the Gospel” (thus on the left for the observer, northern side if the church is directed) in the normal churches. On the other hand, in the cathedrals, its normal position is contrary to the papal throne, therefore on the right (southern of the nave). In the churches with jubé, this one held the role of the pulpit originally, therefore those which are there were added thereafter.

External pulpit

One of the three pulpits external of France is located at the Notre-Dame church of Saint Lô in the Manche

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