Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 576
. Thus,all the coffins which contained the bodies of martyrs, nobles, prelates, orkings, were exposed to the view of the faithful, and served for tombs, sothat these illustrious persons were not, in the true sense of the term,interred. The stone chest in which the body was placed being both acoffin… … those at least who were distinguished for their achievements or theirvirtues, were interred in this fashion in sarcophagi ornamented with alle-gorical subjects, very like those in which pagans were buried. A casein point is the sarcophagus at Rheims of Jovinus the patrician, masterof the cavalry…
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