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The First Lithuanian Book in Print
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The Islamic Origins Debate Goes Public
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Medieval Christianity: The State of the Field
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The Study of Canon Law and the Eclipse of the Lincoln Schools, 1175–1225
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The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi’l-Ta’rikh
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Peter Martyr: The Inquisitor as Saint
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“Mit grôzen listen wart gestalt”: The Element of List in Thirteenth-Century Courtly Romances, with Emphasis on Heinrich Von Dem Türlin’s Diu Crône
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Personae, Same-Sex Desire, and Salvation in the Poetry of Marbod of Rennes, Baudri of Bourgueil, and Hildebert of Lavardin
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Cynewulf the Poet, Alfred the King, and the Nature of Anglo-Saxon Duty
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The Icon of God and the Mirror of the Soul: Exploring the Origins of Iconography in Patristic Writing
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Truth, Translation, and the Troy Book Women
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“I am the Creator”: Birgitta of Sweden’s Feminine Divine
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From Address to Debate: Generic Considerations in the Debate Between Soul and Body
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God Our Mother: The Feminine Cosmology of Julian of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen
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Courtesy Books, Comedy, and the Merchant Masculinity
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