Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe

Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould. Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe

Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. PREHISTORIC CAVE-DWELLERS

CHAPTER II. MODERN TROGLODYTES

CHAPTER III. SOUTERRAINS

CHAPTER IV. CLIFF REFUGES

CHAPTER V. CLIFF CASTLES. THE ROUTIERS

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII. SUBTERRANEAN CHURCHES

CHAPTER VIII. ROCK HERMITAGES

CHAPTER IX. ROCK MONASTERIES

CHAPTER X. CAVE ORACLES

CHAPTER XI

ROBBERS' DENS

CHAPTER XII. BOOK SEPULCHRES

INDEX. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CLIFF CASTLES AND CAVE DWELLINGS OF EUROPE

CHAPTER I. PREHISTORIC CAVE-DWELLERS

CHAPTER II

MODERN TROGLODYTES

CHAPTER III

SOUTERRAINS

CHAPTER IV

CLIFF REFUGES

CHAPTER V

CLIFF CASTLES. THE ROUTIERS

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

SUBTERRANEAN CHURCHES

CHAPTER VIII

ROCK HERMITAGES

[ILLUSTRATION: SCULPTURE IN ROYSTON CAVE]

CHAPTER IX

ROCK MONASTERIES

CHAPTER X

CAVE ORACLES

CHAPTER XI

ROBBERS' DENS

CHAPTER XII

ROCK SEPULCHRES

Act I. sc. 5.]

APPENDIX

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S. Baring-Gould

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Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.

He could have lived nowhere else, till, after the lapse of ages, he had developed invention and adaptability. Besant and Rice, in "Ready-money Mortiboy," speak of Divine Discontent as the motive power impelling man to progress. Not till the chalk and the limestone shelters were stocked, and could hold no more, would men be driven to invent for themselves other dwellings. The first men being sent into the world without a natural coat of fur or feathers, would settle into caves or under overhanging roofs of rock, and with flint picked out of it, chipped and pointed, secure the flesh of the beast for food and its hide for clothing. Having accomplished this, man would sit down complacently for long ages. Indeed, there are certain branches of the human family that have progressed no further and display no ambition to advance.

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