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 593
ance of their rank or fortune.Laymen and priests had a right to be buried in the aisles of the church,or in the part corresponding to the apse, and it is no exaggeration to saythat the interior was often so full of graves that they extended outside thebuilding. Such was the case after the seventh… … Fig. 367.—The Crossof the Bureau Family,formerly in the Cemetery of the Inno-cents, Paris.—Lenoirs StatistiqueMonumentale de Paris. (paradisus) ; hence the origin of the ruralcemetery which extends along the sidesof a country church, or forms a green infront of it. Burial in the churches was at…
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