Who's who in the Middle AgesBarnes & Noble Publishing, 1970 - 218 pages A Dictionary of the lives of men and women who dominated the time between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. Each portrait provides a historical outline of a life and assesses that life in relation to the contemporary background. |
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