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 599
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… … The Dance of Death, after Holbeins Drawings {continued). built boundary-wall. At a later date, the cemeteries contiguous to parishchurches or to the chapels of hospitals were surrounded with cloister-likegalleries, between the roof and ceiling of which was the charnel-house, wherethe bones dug up…
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