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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 598

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oman, king nor emperor, rich nor poor, noble nor villain, wise nor fool, physician nor surgeon,young nor old, strong nor weak, man nor woman. Nothing is more certain; all have to takepart in deaths dance.—Explanation taken from the Forteresses de la Foy, Manuscriptof the Fifteenth Century, in the… … The Dance of Death, after Holbeins Drawings {continued). cemetery of the Middle Ages, and the charnel-house which enclosed it uponthree sides served as a model for all those constructed for other Christianchurches and cemeteries, in accordance with a custom dating hack, it isreported, to the fifth…

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