Heads Will Roll: Decapitations in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination

Jeff Massey

Heads Will Roll: Decapitations in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination

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Original language	American English
State	Published - Jan 2002

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Arts and Humanities
English Language and Literature

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