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 579
ut the Middle Ages (Fig. 1355), and were com- 462 FUNERAL CEREMONIES. bined, subsequent to tbe thirteenth century, with another mode based onquite a different principle. As, in spite of the decrees of the councils,the churches were still full of graves, it was sought to make the tombserected in… … Fig. 3.56. -Tomb in the Church of St. Waudru, at Mons, of Adelaide or Alice, Countess of Hainault,who died in 1168. This tomb is of stone, devoid of all decoration, with a triangular top inthe shape of a cross. (Twelfth Century.) beneath. There were, besides, the flat tombs, the pompous epitaphs…
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