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Reading Don Quijote in a Time of War

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In the Light of Medieval Spain

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“One day,” wrote conservative columnist James Pinkerton in Newsday in July 2003, “this Iraq war will be thought of as the Intellectuals’ War. That is, it was a war conceived of by people who possessed more books than common sense, let alone actual military experience.”

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Simon R. Doubleday David Coleman

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Rouhi, L. (2008). Reading Don Quijote in a Time of War. In: Doubleday, S.R., Coleman, D. (eds) In the Light of Medieval Spain. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614086_3

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