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Book cover of The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century Book cover of The Art of Executing Well: Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy Book cover of Tyburn's Martyrs: Execution in England, 1675-1775 Book cover of The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe Book cover of The Ebony Tower Book cover of The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and The Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth Centuries

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