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The Cronica Roberti Biscardi et fratrum ac Rogerii Comitis Mileti: A Twelfth-Century History of the Norman Conquest of Sicily

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The Cronica Roberti Biscardi et fratrum ac Rogerii Comitis Mileti : A Twelfth-Century History of the Norman Conquest of Sicily. / Aspinwall, John George.

Lancaster University, 2021. 265 p.

Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

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Aspinwall, JG 2021, 'The Cronica Roberti Biscardi et fratrum ac Rogerii Comitis Mileti: A Twelfth-Century History of the Norman Conquest of Sicily', PhD, History. https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1312

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Aspinwall, J. G. (2021). The Cronica Roberti Biscardi et fratrum ac Rogerii Comitis Mileti: A Twelfth-Century History of the Norman Conquest of Sicily. Lancaster University. https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1312

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Aspinwall JG. The Cronica Roberti Biscardi et fratrum ac Rogerii Comitis Mileti: A Twelfth-Century History of the Norman Conquest of Sicily. Lancaster University, 2021. 265 p. https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1312

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Aspinwall, John George. / The Cronica Roberti Biscardi et fratrum ac Rogerii Comitis Mileti : A Twelfth-Century History of the Norman Conquest of Sicily. Lancaster University, 2021. 265 p.

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