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Hans Baron's Renaissance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Alison Brown
Alison Brown
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
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The Historical Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 1990 , pp. 441 - 448
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