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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-26 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Language: en
Pages: 221
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-13 - Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance
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