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Surviving the Reformation

Helen Cooper

  • The Beggar and the Professor: A 16th-Century Family Saga by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

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Helen Cooper is a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge and the author of The English Romance in Time.

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