Decolonization and the dynamics of urban decline in Ireland, 1300-1550

Towns in Decline, AD100-1600

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 157-192

  Clarke, Howard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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