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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 | |