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December 2019 Issue Joanna Bourke Call of the Caliphate Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS By Azadeh Moaveni LR
December 2019 Issue Frances Spalding Widening the Frame Voyaging Out: British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties By Carolyn Trant LR
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February 1982 Issue Santha Bhattacharji Spiritual Endeavour The Solitary, Self Individuality in the Ancrene Wisse By Linda Georgianna LR
April 1981 Issue Anita Desai Land of Women The Woman Warrior By Maxine Hong Kingston China Men By Maxine Hong Kingston LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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