medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Jim Bugslag wrote:
>
>> which *some* people of the Art Hysterical Persuasion want to read as
>> "Ivo [caused to be] built a beautifully decorated choirscreen
>> [_jubé_]."
>>
>> the present choirscreen at Chartres is 16th-17th c., and replaces
>> one from the first half of the 13th c., which survives in some
>> fragments (mostly in the St. Piat chapel off the apse).
>
> You should probably be differentiating here between "jube" and "choir
> screen".
No, Christopher is right. The 'choir screen' is what we now call a
"pulpitum", and is usually a stone screen at the entrance to the choir. The
complication is that in monastic churches (especially those with a parochial
nave) there was a rood screen one bay west of the pulpitum. This had a
central altar on its western face, flanked by two doorways, and the rood
above. A cathedral would not normally have this second screen, and the
pulpitum is usually called a choir screen.
The term "jubé" is from " jube, domine, benedicere" - which was presumably
presumably sung 'in pulpito...'
John Briggs
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