The Dance of Death

CHAPTER I.

_Personification of Death, and other modes of representing it among the Ancients.--Same subject during the Middle Ages.--Erroneous notions respecting Death.--Monumental absurdities.--Allegorical pageant of the Dance of Death represented in early times by living persons in churches and cemeteries.--Some of these dances described.--Not unknown to the Ancients.--Introduction...