This volume examines the aristocracy in Tuscany and in England across a period of two and a half centuries (1000-1250). It deals first with Tuscany, tracing the history of the aristocracy and illustrating its nature and evolution, and observing aristocratic behaviour and attitudes, and how aristocra
Romance and the formation of ethnic identities in England and Wales, c. 1050 to c. 1200
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- Publisher
- Rutgers University
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 244
- Series
- PhD Dissertation
- Category
- Library
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