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C. David Benson Rudolf Simek, (Angela Hall, trans.), Heaven and Earth in the Middle Ages 67/1, p. 113
C. David Benson lain Macleod Higgins, Writing East: The 'Travels of Sir John Mandeville 67/1, p. 158
C. David Benson The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus, by Valerie I. J. Flint 62/2, p. 367

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