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- ↑ "Gladstone Prize". Royal Historical Society . Retrieved 2016-11-28.
- ↑ Berend, Nora (2017-05-15). The Expansion of Central Europe in the Middle Ages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-89008-3.
