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I'm a reader, a writer, a teacher, and a medievalist, whose happy place is in either an archive or a bookstore with a cup of coffee in my hand and the sound of rain outside. Turn-offs include bad prose, overdone metaphors, flat female characters, exposition dumps, formulaic titles (e.g. "The Girl at the Window on the Train with a Tattoo"; "The [male profession]'s [female relation]"), and misuse of apostrophes. I try to rate everything as compared to other books *within* its genre -- this is why How Long 'Til Black Future Month gets five stars, and The Iliad gets three. In general, though, here's my rating system (with the caveat that I don't generally give a rating to academic monographs):

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	The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon (The Middle Ages Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Treasures of English Heritage 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Constructing Iberian Identities, 1000-1700 (Cursor Mundi, 42) by Thomas W. Barton (editor), Marie A. Kelleher (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Antonio M. Zaldivar (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia

by Charles Hirschkind

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The Almoravid and Almohad Empires (The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires)

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