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In the market for a replica of a treatise on fighting? Need to learn how to spin wool with medieval tools? Interested in a Latin translation of The Giving Tree? All that and more can be found at the annual Medieval Studies conference in Kalamazoo.
Michael Symonds
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WMUK
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