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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 600

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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… … The Dance of Death, after Holbeins Drawings (continued). instance, a large stone cross with florid decoration and varying in design,many of which date back to the eleventh century. After this period cameinto vogue a small lantern, built in the shape of a very narrow tower, likea hollow column, from…

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