Towns and Townspeople in the Fifteenth Century
- ISBN-10
- 0862994691
- ISBN-13
- 9780862994693
- Category
- History / Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485)
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Alan Sutton
- Author
- John A. F. Thomson
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