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 602
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… … Upon the side opposite to the door, an altar jutted out at the base of thetower. This altar was never consecrated, as the canons forbid any celebra-tion to be held upon those which were in the open air (sub dio). Thereare many monuments of this kind in Maine, Berry, Angoumois, and Gas-cony; they…
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