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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Additional Audio and Online Resources | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Political and Religious Orders | |
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| Money, Weights, and Measures | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| The Middle Ages | |
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| Before the Norman Conquest | |
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| Beowulf | |
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| Response | |
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| from Grendel | |
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| Early Irish Narrative | |
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| The Labour Pains of the Ulaid | |
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| The Birth of Cu Chulainn | |
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| The Naming of Cu Chulainn | |
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| Early Irish Verse | |
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| To Crinog | |
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| Pangur the Cat | |
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| Writing in the Wood | |
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| The Viking Terror | |
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| The Old Woman of Beare | |
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| Findabair Remembers Froech | |
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| A Grave Marked with Ogam | |
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| from The Voyage of Mael Duin | |
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| Judith | |
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| The Dream of the Rood | |
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| Perspectives: Ethnic and Religious Encounters | |
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| Bede | |
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| from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People | |
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| Bishop Asser | |
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| from The Life of King Alfred | |
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| King Alfred | |
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| Preface to Saint Gregory's Pastoral Care | |
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| Ohthere's Journeys | |
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| The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | |
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| Stamford Bridge and Hastings | |
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| Taliesin | |
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| Urien Yrechwydd | |
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| The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain | |
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| The War-Band's Return | |
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| Lament for Owain Son of Urien | |
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| The Tale of Taliesin | |
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| The Wanderer | |
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| Wulf and Eadwacer and the Wife's Lament | |
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| Riddles | |
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| Three Anglo-Latin Riddles by Aldhelm | |
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| Five Old English Riddles | |
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| After the Norman Conquest | |
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| Perspectives: Arthurian Myth in the History of Britain | |
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| Geoffrey of Monmouth | |
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| from History of the Kings of Britain | |
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| Gerald of Wales | |
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| from The Instruction of Princes | |
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| Edward I | |
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| Letter sent to the Papal Court of Rome | |
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| Response | |
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| A Report to Edward I | |
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| Arthurian Romance | |
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| Marie De France | |
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| Lais | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Lanval | |
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| Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle) | |
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| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | |
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| Sir Thomas Malory | |
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| Morte Darthur | |
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| from Caxton's Prologue | |
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| The Miracle of Galahad | |
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| The Poisoned Apple | |
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| The Day of Destiny | |
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| Responses | |
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| from The Mists of Avalon | |
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| scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail | |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer | |
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| The Parliament of Fowls | |
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| The Canterbury Tales | |
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| The General Prologue (Middle English and modern translation) | |
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| The Miller's Tale | |
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| The Introduction | |
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| The Tale | |
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| The Wife of Bath's Prologue | |
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| The Wife of Bath's Tale | |
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| Response | |
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| from The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow | |
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| The Franklin's Tale | |
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| The Prologue | |
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| The Tale | |
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| The Pardoner's Prologue | |
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| The Pardoner's Tale | |
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| The Nun's Priest's Tale | |
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| The Parson's Tale | |
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| The Introduction | |
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| [The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery] | |
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| Chaucer's Retraction | |
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| To His Scribe Adam | |
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| Complaint to His Purse | |
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| William Langland | |
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| Piers Plowman | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Passus 2 | |
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| from Passus 6 | |
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| Passus 8 | |
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| Passus 20 | |
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| "Piers Plowman" and Its Time: The Rising of 1381 | |
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| from The Anonimalle Chronicle [Wat Tyler's Demands to Richard II, and His Death] | |
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| Three Poems on the Rising of 1381: John Ball's First Letter | |
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| John Ball's Second Letter | |
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| The Course of Revolt | |
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| from The Voice of One Crying | |
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| Mystical Writings | |
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| Julian of Norwich | |
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| A Book of Showings | |
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| [Three Graces. Illness. The First Revelation] | |
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| [Laughing at the Devil] | |
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| [Christ Draws Julian in through His Wound] | |
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| [The Necessity of Sin, and of Hating Sin] | |
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| [God as Father, Mother, Husband] | |
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| [The Soul as Christ's Citadel] | |
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| [The Meaning of the Visions Is Love] | |
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| Companion Readings | |
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| from The Fire of Love | |
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| from The Cloud of Unknowing | |
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| Response | |
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| The Dream of Washing Quilts | |
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| Medieval Biblical Drama | |
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| The Second Play of the Shepherds | |
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| The York Play of the Crucifixion | |
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| Vernacular Religion | |
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| The Wycliffite Bible | |
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| John 10.11-18 | |
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| from A Wycliffite Sermon on John 10.11-18 | |
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| John Mirk | |
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| from Festial | |
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| Preaching and Teaching in the Vernacular | |
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| Nicholas Love | |
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| from The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ | |
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| from The Confession of Hawisia Moone of Loddon | |
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| Margery Kempe | |
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| The Book of Margery Kempe | |
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| The Preface | |
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| [Early Life and Temptations, Revelation, Desire for Foreign Pilgrimage] | |
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| [Meeting with Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Canterbury] | |
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| [Visit with Julian of Norwich] | |
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| [Pilgrimage to Jerusalem] | |
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| [Arrest by Duke of Bedford's Men; Meeting with Archbishop of York] | |
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| Middle English Lyrics | |
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| The Cuckoo Song ("Sumer is icumen in") | |
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| Spring ("Lenten is come with love to toune") | |
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| Alisoun ("Bitwene Mersh and Averil") | |
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| I Have a Noble Cock | |
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| My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond | |
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| Fowls in the Frith | |
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| Abuse of Women ("In every place ye may well see") | |
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| The Irish Dancer ("Gode sire, pray ich thee") | |
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| A Forsaken Maiden's Lament ("I lovede a child of this cuntree") | |
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| The Wily Clerk ("This enther day I mete a clerke") | |
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| Jolly Jankin ("As I went on YoI Day in our procession") | |
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| Adam Lay Ibounden | |
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| I Sing of a Maiden | |
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| In Praise of Mary ("Edi be thu, Hevene Quene") | |
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| Mary Is with Child ("Under a tree") | |
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| Sweet Jesus, King of Bliss | |
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| Now Goeth Sun under Wood | |
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| Jesus, My Sweet Lover ("Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete") | |
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| Contempt of the World ("Where beth they biforen us weren?") | |
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| Dafydd Ap Gwilym | |
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| Aubade | |
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| One Saving Place | |
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| The Girls of Llanbadarn | |
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| Tale of a Wayside Inn | |
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| The Hateful Husband | |
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| The Winter | |
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| The Ruin | |
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| Middle Scots Poets | |
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| William Dunbar | |
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| Lament for the Makars | |
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| Done Is a Battell | |
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| In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht | |
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| Robert Henryson | |
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| Robene and Makyne | |
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| Late Medieval Allegory | |
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| Charles D'Orleans | |
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| Ballade 26 | |
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| Ballade 61 | |
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| Roundel 94 | |
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| Mankind | |
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| Christine De Pizan | |
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| from Book of the City of Ladies | |
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| Literary and Cultural Terms | |
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| Index | |