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Book Title: Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity : Volume 1: the Middle Ages
Item Length: 10in.
Item Height: 1.2in.
Item Width: 7in.
Author: January M. Ziolkowski
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Medieval, Subjects & Themes / Religion, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Europe / Medieval
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Publication Year: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism, History
Item Weight: 41.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 406 Pages
