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 601
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… … suspended lamp. This small building was called the lantern of the dead(Figs. 394—396) ; it was also termed a beacon ( fanal), a lighthouse (pliare^,and a little tower (toumiek). These beacon-towers, intended to indicate fromafar during night-time the presence of a cemetery, generally had a door…
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