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Gabrielle Spiegel

  • The Lord’s First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage by Alain Boureau, translated by Lydia Cochrane

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Gabrielle Spiegel, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, specialises in medieval history.

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