M. CECILIA GAPOSCHKIN. The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2008. Pp. xvii, 331. $45.00
Adam J. Davis
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