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Identifier: artsinearlyengla03brow (find matches)
Title: The arts in early England
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956 Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980
Subjects: Art Architecture Architecture, Medieval Church architecture Crosses Decoration and ornament, Celtic Inscriptions, Runic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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in relation to the distribution ofthe Teutonic population, the natural features of the country,and the social and sepulchral arrangements of the earlier in-habitants whom the invaders dispossessed : (IV) the treatmentof the body before burial, and the disposal of it or its ashes inthe receptacle prepared for it : (V) the arrangement and theforms of the graves : (VI) orientation and tomb furniture :(VII) the mark or monument, if any, that indicated at thetime and to posterity the place of interment: (VIII) the indica-tions, if any, in connection with the above of social customs,or of class or other distinctions among the interred. I. It is a curious reflection that there are two periods inthe history of this country at which the pagan Anglo-Saxoncemetery has been a conspicuous monumental or social fact,and these periods are separated by about a thousand years.From the first settlement down to about 700 a.d. thesecemeteries were in use and honour, but from that date till X facing p. 115
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CHRISTIAN OBJECTS IN CEMETERIES i5 about 1700 they passed not only out of use but out ofmemory almost as completely as did the Roman catacombs,while within the last century and a half they have resumed aplace of importance among our national institutions. Thecause of their passing out of use was the establishment of thechurchyard, within which, if not within the church itself, theclergy gradually brought the faithful to lay their dead. Theearly history of the churchyard is obscure and nothing needshere to be added to what was written in the first volume ofthis work,1 where it was noticed that the first Christian bury-ing grounds were apparently attached to monastic churchesand that these may have been used for the burial of faithfulpersons not in monastic orders. It was only gradually thatthe temenos or enclosed area around the country church wasmade the effective place of burial for the local population, andit would be very interesting to know exactly when and underwhat conditions th

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