Kingly impairments in Anglo-Saxon literature: God's Curse and God's blessing

Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 135-148

  Tovey, Beth ^a  

^a MAGDALEN COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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