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Which book in the list focuses on St Brendan’s voyage to America and who is the author?

Land to the West: St Brendan’s Voyage to America by Geoffrey Ashe (London: Collins, 1962).

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Question: Which book in the list focuses on St Brendan’s voyage to America and who is the author?

Answer: Land to the West: St Brendan’s Voyage to America by Geoffrey Ashe (London: Collins, 1962).

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Question: Which recent (2020) book addresses medieval self-coronations and who wrote it?

Answer: Medieval Self-Coronations: The History and Symbolism of a Ritual by Jaume Aurell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

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Question: Which work listed is a biography of Mehmed the Conqueror and who translated or edited it for Princeton University Press in 1978?

Answer: Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time by Franz Babinger (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978).

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Question: Name an edited volume from 2011 that debates feudalism and its editors.

Answer: Feudalism: New Landscapes of Debate edited by Sverre Bagge, Michael H. Gelting, and Thomas Lindkvist (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011).

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Question: Which edited volume covers the German Peasant War of 1525 and who edited it?

Answer: The German Peasant War of 1525 edited by Janos Bak (Abingdon: Routledge, 2013).

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Question: Which book listed is a comprehensive history of the Knights Templar and who is the author?

Answer: The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple by Malcolm Barber (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

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Question: Which author on the list wrote a revised edition on knighthood and chivalry published by Boydell Press in 1995?

Answer: The Knight and Chivalry (revised edition) by Richard Barber (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1995).

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Question: Which two-volume work from 2020 covers medieval monasticism in the Latin West and who edited it?

Answer: The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West (2 vols.) edited by Alison I. Beach and Isabelle Cochelin (Cambridge: Cambridge Univer

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Question: Which popular historian wrote SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome and is included in this bibliography?

Answer: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (London: Profile Books, 2015).

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Question: Which volume of The Cambridge World History in the list focuses on a world with states, empires and networks 1200 BCE–900 CE and who edited it?

Answer: The Cambridge World History vol. 4: A World with States, Empires and Networks, 1200 BCE–900 CE edited by Craig Benjamin (Cambridge: Cambridge Universi