‘I would not be surprised if [medieval monks] were, by our standards, fat,’ Barbara Harvey admitted in her Wolfson Prize-winning study
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‘I would not be surprised if [medieval monks] were, by our standards, fat,’ Barbara Harvey admitted in her Wolfson Prize-winning study
‘I would not be surprised if [medieval monks] were, by our standards, fat,’ Barbara Harvey admitted in her Wolfson Prize-winning study
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