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Metropolitans, Sages, Translators in Medieval Europe is a collective book from Polystoria series, issued by the Centre of Medieval Studies of the Higher School of Economics. It contains essays on several subjects of cultural, religious, and political history of Western and Eastern Europe. The collecton of research studies is accomplished by translation into Russian of the Boncompagno’s da Signa (1165/1175 — after 1240) work De malo senectutis et senii.
The book is addressed to historians, philologists, art historians, specialists in religious and cultural studies and political analysts, as well as a wide public interested in general history of Europe.