# The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein

Author: Douce, Francis, 1757-1834; Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38724

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## Summary

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 of the infernal, or dance of Macaber 1

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/18/index.md)
- [letter V only, which may have been part of an alphabet with a Dance of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-death-exhibited-in-elegant-engravings-on-wood-with-aa7110a4/chapters/12/index.md)