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"citation": "Dziki, Agnieszka. \"\"I Carve My Figures Fine and Make Them Come to Life\": The Animation of Late Medieval Kleinplastik.\" In The Living Image in the Middle Ages and beyond: Theoretical and Historical Approaches, Kamil Kopania, Henning Laugerud, and Zuzanna Sarnecka, eds, 137-158. New York, NY: Routledge, 2025.",
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