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krĭpt [Gr.,=hidden], vault or chamber beneath the main level of a church, used as a meeting place or burial place. It undoubtedly developed from the catacombs used by early Christians as places of worship. Early churches were commonly built over the tombs of martyrs. Such vaults, located beneath the main altar, developed into the extensive crypts of the Middle Ages that in many churches of the 11th and 12th cent. occupied the entire space beneath the sanctuary. At Canterbury the 12th-century crypt forms a large and complete lower church in itself. The crypt of the Rochester Cathedral is partly above ground. The cathedrals at Chartres and at Bourges have crypts typical of the Gothic development.

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books on: Crypt  - 2324 results

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The Wolf-Man's Burden
Book by Lawrence Johnson; Cornell University Press, 2001
Subjects: Freud, Sigmund--1856-1939, Pankejeff, Sergius--1887-1979
...1 CHAPTER ONE Bearing a "False" Crypt 28 CHAPTER TWO Corresponding with...short-circuited: they call it the Wolf Mans crypt. They explain that the splitting of the...been completely internalized.4 The crypt is this monument of a lost object preserved...
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Sir Christopher Wren, A.D. 1632-1723
Book by Rudolf Dircks; Hodder and Stoughton, 1923
Subjects: Architecture--England--London, St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England), Wren, Christopher--Sir--1632-1723
...on Sir Christopher Wrens tomb in the Crypt by the President of the Royal Institute...ruin of the vaults had burst those of the crypt; and only portions of the building remained...feet above ordnance datum line, and the Crypt floor is eight feet below that, and the...
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Architecture in Britain: The Middle Ages
Book by Geoffrey Webb; Penguin Books, 1956
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval, Architecture--Great Britain--History
...4 3 Crypt, Hexham Priory: Plan 5...18 Worcester Cathedral: Plan of crypt 31...eleventh century N.B.R. 19 Crypt. Worcester Cathedral. c. 1085 N.B.R...
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As Befits a Legend: Building a Tomb for Napoleon, 1840-1861
Book by Michael Paul Driskel; Kent State University Press, 1993
Subjects: Art And State--France--History--19th Century, Napoleon--I--Emperor Of The French--1769-1821--Tomb, Neoclassicism (Architecture)--France--Paris, Paris (France)--Buildings, Structures, Etc, Public Opinion--France, Sepulchral Monuments--France--Public Opinion, Visconti, Louis--1791-1853--Criticism And Interpretation
...8 Tomb of Napoleon , Entry into Crypt 7 9 Statues of Civil...9 11 View across the crypt toward Victory Figures 9...Visconti, Elevation of the Entry to the crypt, the Dome of the Invalides 142...
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An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia
Book by S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Authors, American--20th Century--Biography--Encyclopedias, Horror Tales, American--Encyclopedias, Lovecraft, H. P--(Howard Phillips)--1890-1937--Encyclopedias
...Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories 1999 Crypt Crypt of Cthulhu magazine D Dagon and Other...it see Will Murray, Julius Schwartz on Lovecraft, Crypt No. 76 Hallowmas 1990 : 14 18 . It was published, however...
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Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood
Journal article by Carol A. Senf; Criticism, Vol. 44, 2002
Subjects: Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood (Book)
Draculas Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question...reading of that novel). However, Draculas Crypt is also worth reading because it introduces...Valente lays out the thesis of Draculas Crypt clearly in his introduction, articulating...
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Rape, Crypt and Fantasm: Kleist's 'Marquise of O...
Journal article by Thomas Dutoit; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 27, 1994
Subjects: Fantastic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., German fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Kleist, Heinrich von--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Traumatic shock--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Truth in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Rape, crypt and fantasm: Kleists Marquise of O...Torok have developed the notion of the "crypt" as the name for the place of this violence...admitte by him/her. In their writings, the "crypt" is the correlative of "incorporation...
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Stoker: An Ambivalent Metrocolonial
Journal article by Michael Barsanti; English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 46, 2003
Subjects: Dracula's Crypt: Brain Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood (Book)
...Barsanti Joseph Valente. Draculas Crypt: Brain Stoker, Irishness, and the Question...Press, 2002. x + 173 pp. $29.95 DRACULAS CRYPT offers a new attempt to break out of an...Stokers hero in the final chapter of Draculas Crypt, "Beyond Blood: Defeating the Inner Vampire...
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Bram Stoker, Genevieve Ward and the Lady of the Shroud: Gothic Weddings and Performing Vampires
Journal article by Catherine Wynne; English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 49, 2006
Subjects: English literature, Stoker, Bram--Authorship, Stoker, Bram--Criticism and interpretation, The Lady of the Shroud (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...moment a bride-to-be emerges from a burial crypt for a midnight wedding to a man who fears...recall the quasi-marital ceremony in Lucys crypt in Dracula (1897) in which Godalming stakes...Interestingly, the bedchamber and the burial crypt converge in the painting; Schalken draws...
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Parametric and Nonparametric Methods for Understanding the Relationship between Carcinogen-Induced DNA Adduct Levels in Distal and Proximal Regions of the Colon
Journal article by Jeffrey S. Morris, Naisyin Wang, Joamme R. Lupton, Robert S. Chapkin, Nancy D. Turner, Mee Young Hong, Raymond J. Carroll; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 96, 2001
Subjects: Colorectal cancer--Research, Functional analysis--Usage, Nutrition--Influence, Parameter estimation--Usage
...within discrete units called crypts. Within each crypt, there are stationary, permanent cells called stem cells that generate all the cells within that crypt. Daughter cells are formed at the crypt depths where the stem cells are located, typically...
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Tales from the Crypt
Magazine article by Brian Siano; The Humanist, Vol. 54, March 1994
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc.--Censorship, Comic books--Censorship, Comic strips--Censorship
Tales from the Crypt. by Brian Siano In the early...Comics The Haunt of Fear, Tales from the Crypt, and The Vault of Horror--even the superheroes...Good Intentions Expressway. (I hope the Crypt-Keepers there too, with a shotgun and mirrored...
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Tales from the Crypt
Magazine article by James Wolcott; New Criterion, Vol. 24, June 2006
Subjects: The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Video recording)--Video recording reviews, Video recordings--Video recording reviews
Tales from the Crypt. by James Wolcott When word arrived last autumn that The New Yorker was releasing a deluxe boxed CD set of every issue...
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Contemptus Mundi and the Love of Life
Magazine article by Amanda Shaw; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 2008
Subjects: Hate--Analysis, Hatred--Analysis, Love--Analysis
...than even the catacombs, has a unique appeal. The crypt below is lavishly decorated with the bones of more...settles on the pilgrim as he makes his way through the Crypt of the Skulls and the Crypt of the Pelvises, past the Crypt of the Leg and Thigh...
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Mont Saint Michel: France's 'Marvelous Pyramid'
Magazine article by Nancy Parode; World and I, Vol. 22, April 2007
Subjects: Abbeys--Appreciation, Abbeys--History, Abbeys--Protection and preservation, Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey--Appreciation, Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey--History, Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey--Protection and preservation
...soon afterwards. Bishop Aubert built a crypt church, Our Lady Under the Earth (Notre-Dame-sous-Terre...canonized bishop who built the original crypt, ensured that Mont Saint Michel would become...of the abbey, you can visit the original crypt built by Saint Aubert, which is now underneath...
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War and Faith in Dresden
Magazine article by Anthony Clayton; History Today, Vol. 47, April 1997
Subjects: Dresden, Germany--History, Germany--Religion, War and religion--Germany
...destroyed in the raids took visible shape and the reconstructed crypt was opened for worship and concerts. The story of the church...churchs high altar cross and silver candelabra to safety in the crypt, but he went missing in the second raid. A week later the priest...
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Grandest of Resting Places; HIDDEN TYNESIDE in the Latest in Our Occasional Hidden Tyneside Series, LIZ LAMB Visits a Crypt That Houses the Bodies of Five Aristocrats from the Gibside Estate
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), September 26, 2008
...Hidden Tyneside Series, LIZ LAMB Visits a Crypt That Houses the Bodies of Five Aristocrats...magnificent Gibside Chapel is a dark, cold crypt. Here in the dingy domeshaped mausoleum...centuries ago. Hidden away from the world, the crypt is rarely opened and many who visit the...
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Joined through Faith; Work Has Started on a Passageway to Link the Metropolitan Cathedral with Its Crypt
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 21, 2007
...Link the Metropolitan Cathedral with Its Crypt. Byline: Laura Davis reports THE first...within - was never completed. Only the crypt, a fraction of the original blueprint but...glass passageway that will link the Lutyens crypt to the 1960s concrete building, designed...
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Tales from the Crypt!
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), November 29, 2007
Tales from the Crypt! Byline: By CATHERINE JONES Culture Reporter LIVERPOOLS...launched a pounds 200,000 fund-raising drive to open up its crypt as a visitor attraction. The crypt is the only part of the original Lutyens-designed cathedral...
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Secrets of the Crypt; Revealed at Last, the Investigation That Uncovered a Host of Mysteries underneath the Rosslyn Chapel
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 14, 2006
Secrets of the Crypt; Revealed at Last, the Investigation That...sophisticated scan of the tiny Midlothian chapels crypt was carried out almost two decades ago...sophisticated ground scan of the chapel and the crypt. I know for a fact what is there. The scan...
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Bargain Basement; Crypt Cafe Has Capital's Best Dinner on a Budget
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 14, 2006
Bargain Basement; Crypt Cafe Has Capitals Best Dinner on a Budget...If youre on a budget, try Cafe in the Crypt at St Martin-inthe-Fields church. A new...already well known but the Cafe in the Crypt, Trafalgar Square, is less so. The churchs...
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encyclopedia articles on: Crypt  - 22 results

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Crypt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CRYPT kript Gr.,=hidden, vault or chamber beneath the main level of a church, used as a meeting...12th cent. occupied the entire space beneath the sanctuary. At Canterbury the 12th-century crypt forms a large and complete lower church in itself. The crypt of the Rochester Cathedral is partly above ground. The cathedrals at Chartres and at Bourges...
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Warrington , City, England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...metal products, chemicals, soap, leather goods, and beer. The site was early occupied; the Church of St. Elphin has a Saxon crypt. The grammar school dates from 1526, and there are several half-timbered houses. Warrington academy for religious dissenters...
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Worcester , City, England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...machines are also manufactured. The site became a bishopric c.680. Worcesters cathedral is chiefly 14th cent., with a Norman crypt and tombs; in it are held, alternately with Hereford and Gloucester, the Festivals of the Three Choirs. Several old parish churches...
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Repton
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...but was later destroyed by the Danes. Remains exist of a priory founded in 1172, and the Church of St. Wystan has a fine Saxon crypt. The village is known for Repton School (1557), a public school for boys established on the grounds of the priory...
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Ripon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...where monasteries have stood since the 7th cent. The present cathedral dates from the 12th to the 15th cent. It has a Saxon crypt with a narrow passage called St. Wilfrids Needle; the ability to pass through it was supposed to be an indication of chastity...
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