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This concise handbook defines some 4,000 medieval terms and expressions from art and architecture, sex and science, costume and cookery, literature and magic, liturgy and astrology, warfare and ceremony.A real companion to medieval culture, the book also includes general concepts central to medieval thinking, such as allegory, polyphony, and numerology, and 80 elegant illustrations.Cosman, Madeleine Pelner is the author of 'Medieval Wordbook - Madeleine Pelner Pelner Cosman - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780816030217 and ISBN 0816030219.
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