Balaam's ass : vernacular theology before the English Reformation / Nicholas Watson.

"Drawing on the labors of generations of editors and engaging synthetically with old and new scholarship in a number of fields, the three volumes of this book make a concerted effort to address this situation, and, if this can in fact be done, to help begin to dislodge it. This project is carried ou...

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Uniform Title:Middle Ages series.
Main Author: Watson, Nicholas (Author)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]-
Series:Middle Ages series.
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Physical Description:volumes ; 25 cm.
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