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A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand profes...

This volume explores religious conversion in late antique and early medieval Europe at a time whe...

A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand profes...

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Der Magus und seine Geschichte(n) -- Der Magier als Häresiar...

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