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

Jeff Massey

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

Jeff Massey

English

Producción científica: Book

Idioma original	American English
Estado	Published - ene 2002

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Arts and Humanities
English Language and Literature

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