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- ↑ Ormrod, W. M. "Avesbury, Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23738.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Cohn, Norman, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical anarchists of the Middle Ages (1970)
Cohn, Norman, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical anarchists of the Middle Ages (1970)
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge (1896). "Robert of Avesbury". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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