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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Surprisingly good
- By Amazon Customer on 25-09-2017
By: Jack Weatherford
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
- A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat....
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A fascinating glimpse into human nature
- By Lawrence on 15-01-2015
By: Ian Mortimer
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The Norman Conquest
- The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
- By: Marc Morris
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest....
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Clarity with interest
- By Amazon Customer on 10-05-2025
By: Marc Morris
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Bedlam: Lunatic Asylum
- Penny Snippets, Book 2
- By: Hobson Tarrant
- Narrated by: Robert Hobson Tarrant
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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The Bethlem hospital for the mentally insane has existed since the year 1244. Originally an alms house for Holy Land Crusaders, it became a dumping ground for the incurably insane.
By: Hobson Tarrant
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The Early Middle Ages
- By: Philip Daileader, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Philip Daileader
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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These 24 lectures trace a journey from Scandinavia across central Europe to the farthest reaches of the Byzantine and Islamic empires, providing insight to this one-lost era....
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Interesting course, very informative
- By Amazon Customer on 29-12-2024
By: Philip Daileader, and others
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In Search of the Dark Ages
- By: Michael Wood
- Narrated by: Marston York
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the best-selling book that established Michael Wood as one of Britain's leading historians....
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Great detailed history!
- By Anonymous User on 18-03-2024
By: Michael Wood
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Surprisingly good
- By Amazon Customer on 25-09-2017
By: Jack Weatherford
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
- A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat....
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A fascinating glimpse into human nature
- By Lawrence on 15-01-2015
By: Ian Mortimer
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The Norman Conquest
- The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
- By: Marc Morris
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest....
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Clarity with interest
- By Amazon Customer on 10-05-2025
By: Marc Morris
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Bedlam: Lunatic Asylum
- Penny Snippets, Book 2
- By: Hobson Tarrant
- Narrated by: Robert Hobson Tarrant
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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The Bethlem hospital for the mentally insane has existed since the year 1244. Originally an alms house for Holy Land Crusaders, it became a dumping ground for the incurably insane.
By: Hobson Tarrant
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The Early Middle Ages
- By: Philip Daileader, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Philip Daileader
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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These 24 lectures trace a journey from Scandinavia across central Europe to the farthest reaches of the Byzantine and Islamic empires, providing insight to this one-lost era....
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Interesting course, very informative
- By Amazon Customer on 29-12-2024
By: Philip Daileader, and others
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In Search of the Dark Ages
- By: Michael Wood
- Narrated by: Marston York
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the best-selling book that established Michael Wood as one of Britain's leading historians....
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Great detailed history!
- By Anonymous User on 18-03-2024
By: Michael Wood
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The Once and Future Sex
- Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
- By: Eleanor Janega
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior....
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I strongly recommend reading this book!
- By Amazon Customer on 16-08-2023
By: Eleanor Janega
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Queens of the Age of Chivalry
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
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Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of the High Middle Ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex, as Alison Weir shows in this gripping group biography of England's fourteenth-century consorts....
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Great book, poor narration
- By SCBB on 19-09-2023
By: Alison Weir
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The Normans
- From Raiders to Kings
- By: Lars Brownworth
- Narrated by: James C. Lewis
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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In The Normans, Lars Brownworth follows their story, from the first shock of a Viking raid on an Irish monastery to the exile of the last Norman Prince of Antioch....
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Well written
- By Paddy on 21-10-2024
By: Lars Brownworth
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Mosquito Mayhem
- de Havilland’s Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII
- By: Martin W. Bowman
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The Mosquito was probably World War II's most versatile combat aircraft. This book contains hundreds of firsthand accounts from many of the two-man crews who flew in them; pilots and navigators....
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What a waste of time.
- By Ian Johnston on 23-12-2021
By: Martin W. Bowman
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L'alto Medioevo. Da Bisanzio al Feudalesimo
- Storia d'Italia 12-18
- By: Autori Vari
- Narrated by: Eugenio Farn
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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L'Alto Medioevo è, per convenzione, quella parte del Medioevo che va dalla caduta dell'Impero Romano d'Occidente, avvenuta nel 476, all'anno 1000 circa...
By: Autori Vari
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The Umayyad Caliphate
- The History and Legacy of the Second Islamic Kingdom Established After Muhammad’s Death
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
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The split between the two forms of Islam was already in the process of forming upon the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Muhammad had constructed around himself not only a potent new religious movement but also a powerful young state called the Ummah....
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Il Basso Medioevo. Dagli albori dell'Umanesimo alla Firenze laurenziana
- Storia d'Italia 28-33
- By: Autori Vari
- Narrated by: Eugenio Farn
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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Secondo la più moderna e riconosciuta periodizzazione storica il Basso Medioevo inizia nel XIV secolo e finisce con la scoperta dell'America...
By: Autori Vari
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Il Pieno Medievo. Dai Normanni a Federico di Svevia
- Storia d'Italia 19-27
- By: Autori Vari
- Narrated by: Eugenio Farn
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Il Pieno Medioevo (detto anche 'classico' o 'centrale') è il periodo intermedio che collega l'Alto Medioevo e il Basso Medioevo e si estende nei secoli XI, XII e XIII...
By: Autori Vari
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The Burgundians
- A Vanished Empire: A History of 1111 Years and One Day
- By: Bart van Loo, Nancy Forest-Flier - translator
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 21 hrs and 12 mins
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This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness....
By: Bart van Loo, and others
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The History of the Medieval World
- From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 22 hrs and 42 mins
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This erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled....
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The history. Interesting.
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-2024
By: Susan Wise Bauer
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Byzantium
- The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
- By: Judith Herrin
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization....
By: Judith Herrin
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A Distant Mirror
- The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 28 hrs and 38 mins
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The 14th century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague....
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Great overview of medieval life
- By Simon on 10-06-2018
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Medieval Europe
- By: Chris Wickham
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period....
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Brilliant
- By Joel Szabo Gillies on 01-12-2020
By: Chris Wickham
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Emperor
- A New Life of Charles V
- By: Geoffrey Parker
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers....
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I quite liked it
- By Ewan on 15-02-2021
By: Geoffrey Parker
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Warriors of the Cloisters
- The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
- By: Christopher I. Beckwith
- Narrated by: Doug Kaye
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West....
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Pope Joan
- The Indestructible Legend of the Catholic Church's First and Only Female Pontiff
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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One of the most fascinating and hotly contested subjects is Pope Joan, a young woman who was so desperate to squeeze herself out of the status quo that she had done the unthinkable....
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The Knights Templar
- On the Trail of the Treasure
- By: Conrad Bauer
- Narrated by: Charles D. Baker
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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The Knights Templar treasure is one the world's most enduring mysteries. Is it a myth or a reality? Where could it possibly be hidden....
By: Conrad Bauer
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Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain
- The Middle Ages Series
- By: Joseph F. O'Callaghan
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, this book recounts the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century....
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Celtic Song
- From the Traditions of Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales
- By: Cindy Thomson
- Narrated by: Brendan Curran
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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While music has always been an integral part of the lives of the people of the British Isles and the diaspora around the world, an exploration of why this is so has seldom been explored.
By: Cindy Thomson
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
- How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the greatest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring”....
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Opening the door of the Mongol ger.
- By 99Albert on 26-11-2024
By: Jack Weatherford
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The Bright Ages
- A New History of Medieval Europe
- By: Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, The Bright Ages shows the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality - a brilliant reflection of humanity itself....
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The Bright Ages
- By Daniel Kearns on 31-12-2023
By: Matthew Gabriele, and others
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The Last Duel
- A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
- By: Eric Jager
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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The gripping true story of the “duel to end all duels” in medieval France that pits a knight against a squire accused of violating the knight’s beautiful young wife....
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Brutal times for quarrels and laws of resolution
- By J Rojas on 24-10-2021
By: Eric Jager
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The Hidden History of the Knights Templar
- The Church's Oldest Conspiracy
- By: Conrad Bauer
- Narrated by: Charles D. Baker
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
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The Knights Templar existed officially for less than 200 years. Founded to protect pilgrims who were travelling through the Holy Lands, their rise to power was sudden....
By: Conrad Bauer
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After the Plague
- By: Simon Doubleday, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Simon Doubleday
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Through its characters, themes, and stories, The Canterbury Tales is a portal into medieval Europe and can thus be a useful tool in expanding our knowledge and challenging our assumptions about what life was truly like in plague times....
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A socialist rendition of the black death.
- By Ben on 08-09-2022
By: Simon Doubleday, and others