From 1637 on, Frang Bardhi submitted reports in Italian and Latin to the Congregation of the Propaganda Fide in Rome which contain a mine of information about his diocese, about political developments, about Albanian customs and about the structure and position of the Catholic Church in Ottoman-occupied Albania.
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Instead of cherrypicking the introductory sentence, which is not at all the topic of this book ( from the University of California Press ), Penslar's superbly written book, a mine of information, could have been used as a valuable source for the Economic history ofthe Jews ( its subject more or less ).
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He published first a collection of " Dissertations sur l'histoire civile et eccl�siastique de Paris " ( 3 vols ., 1739-1743 ), then an " Histoire de la ville et de tout le dioc�se de Paris " ( 15 vols ., 1745-1760 ), which is a mine of information, mostly taken from the original sources.