Key Figures in Medieval Europe

From emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, this book brings together the important people that lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the series, the "Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages", it is useful for students, scholars, and interested readers.

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