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The Verge
- Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
- By: Patrick Wyman
- Narrated by: Patrick Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn....
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Informative and well narrated
- By Shmeccles Shwifty on 12-08-2022
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The Habsburg Way
- 7 Rules for Turbulent Times
- By: Eduard Habsburg
- Narrated by: Eduard Habsburg
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Eduard Habsburg, a member of the family and archduke of Austria, shares insights about the Seven Principles (maxims) at the root of Habsburg thought, action, politics, and family life....
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Elizabeth's London
- Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
- By: Liza Picard
- Narrated by: Liza Picard
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London....
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The History of the Renaissance World
- From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
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A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world....
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Terrible performance
- By Stephan Bollinger on 18-07-2019
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The Story of the Renaissance
- By: William Henry Hudson
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 8 hrs
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In this comprehensive survey, William Hudson explores the forces responsible for the Renaissance, which he describes as the West's "transition from the medieval to the modern world"....
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The Teutonic Knights
- A Military History
- By: William Urban
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. William Urban's narrative charts the rise and fall of the Order and, in an accessible and engaging style, throws light on a band of knights whose deeds and motives have long been misunderstood....
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The Verge
- Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
- By: Patrick Wyman
- Narrated by: Patrick Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn....
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Informative and well narrated
- By Shmeccles Shwifty on 12-08-2022
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The Habsburg Way
- 7 Rules for Turbulent Times
- By: Eduard Habsburg
- Narrated by: Eduard Habsburg
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Eduard Habsburg, a member of the family and archduke of Austria, shares insights about the Seven Principles (maxims) at the root of Habsburg thought, action, politics, and family life....
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Elizabeth's London
- Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
- By: Liza Picard
- Narrated by: Liza Picard
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London....
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The History of the Renaissance World
- From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
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A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world....
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Terrible performance
- By Stephan Bollinger on 18-07-2019
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The Story of the Renaissance
- By: William Henry Hudson
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 8 hrs
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In this comprehensive survey, William Hudson explores the forces responsible for the Renaissance, which he describes as the West's "transition from the medieval to the modern world"....
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The Teutonic Knights
- A Military History
- By: William Urban
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. William Urban's narrative charts the rise and fall of the Order and, in an accessible and engaging style, throws light on a band of knights whose deeds and motives have long been misunderstood....
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Isabella of Castile
- Europe's First Great Queen
- By: Giles Tremlett
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
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In 1474, a 23-year-old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Ahead of her lay the challenge of being a young female ruler....
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Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame
- Penguin Monarchs, Book 2
- By: John Guy
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Henry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. In this revealing new account, John Guy explores how Henry himself understood the world and his place in it....
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The Most Productive People in History: 18 Extraordinarily Prolific Inventors, Artists, and Entrepreneurs, from Archimedes to Elon Musk
- By: Michael Rank
- Narrated by: Kevin Meyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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This book will explore the lives of the 17 most productive people in history.....
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Really interesting!
- By Bob on 21-05-2023
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1434
- The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
- By: Gavin Menzies
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world....
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too long
- By Anonymous User on 09-10-2022
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The Book of the Courtier
- By: Baldassare Castiglione
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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Set in the court of Urbino in 1507, Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier presents an invaluable look at court life and culture during the Renaissance. Over four nights of dialogue, the book explores the key question, ‘What should a courtier be like?’ Listen for more....
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The Borgias
- The Hidden History
- By: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone....
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Delightfully Deliciously Thorough :-)
- By Deirdre E Siegel on 10-10-2022
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Beatrice's Last Smile
- By: Mark Gregory Pegg
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 21 hrs and 12 mins
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A new history of the Middle Ages, Beatrice's Last Smile reveals how Christianity and Islam evolved out of a shared cultural and religious ferment, and how this shaped the development of the West....
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Florence: The History and Legacy of the Birthplace of the Renaissance
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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Historians credit Florence as the starting place of the Italian Renaissance, a process carried out through patronages and commissions of artists beginning in the 12th century....
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Ladies-in-Waiting
- Women Who Served Anne Boleyn
- By: Sylvia Barbara Soberton
- Narrated by: Naomi Madelin
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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The aspects of Anne Boleyn's life and death are fiercely debated by historians, yet her ladies-in-waiting remain an understudied topic....
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Great facts
- By ElvisFan66 on 10-06-2023
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The Prince
- By: Nicolo Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Joseph Gomez
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513, after he was forced to leave Florence as a political exile....
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- By: Jacob Burckhardt
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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In this landmark study of Italy from the 14th through the early 16th centuries, Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt chronicles the rise of Florence and Venice as powerful city-states....
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Burckhardt at his best
- By raz on 03-11-2018
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2,000 Years of Christ's Power, Vol. 3
- Renaissance and Reformation
- By: Nick Needham
- Narrated by: Peter Matthess
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
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Volume Three of 2,000 Years of Christ's Power, in showing the progression of the Reformation era and the daring bravery of its figures, presents a period of history from which there are many lessons to be learnt....
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Princes of the Renaissance
- By: Mary Hollingsworth
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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A history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most influential patrons....
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A World Lit Only by Fire
- The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
- By: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages....
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Engaging narrator, excellent prose but slightly dodgy on historical fact.
- By Rachel on 12-06-2018
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The Sack of Rome
- By: E.R. Chamberlin
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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In the early morning of 6 May, 1527, the 20,000 starving, unpaid troops of Emperor Charles V began their assault on the great walls of Rome. After only a few hours they had overcome the barricades; the city into which they streamed was now in their grip....
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Thirty Years' War
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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For such a destructive war, the Thirty Years’ War is not well-known, and yet it changed the geopolitical face of Europe as well as the role of religion and nation-states in society. This audiobook tells the compelling story of the Thirty Years’ War....
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Léonard de Vinci
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: François Hatt
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
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Léonard de Vinci était enfant illégitime, homosexuel, gaucher, végétarien, distrait et parfois hérétique. Cette inadéquation aux moeurs de l'époque a décuplé sa créativité...
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Leonardo's Brain
- Understanding da Vinci's Creative Genius
- By: Leonard Shlain
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Leonardo's Brain uses Da Vinci as a starting point for an exploration of human creativity....
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Don’t bother, gets weird
- By f e smith on 27-07-2022
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Margaret Beaufort
- Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
- By: Elizabeth Norton
- Narrated by: Debra Burton
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time....
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Botticelli's Secret
- The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
- By: Joseph Luzzi
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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A true historical “detective story” full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced it....
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An art detective story
- By Robyn on 06-01-2024
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A Brief History of Britain 1485-1660
- Brief Histories
- By: Ronald Hutton
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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From the death of Richard III on Bosworth Field in 1485 to the execution of Charles I....
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The Republic of Venice and Republic of Genoa: The History of the Italian Rivals and Their Mediterranean Empires
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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The Republic of Venice and Republic of Genoa: The History of the Italian Rivals and Their Mediterranean Empires looks at the origins of the cities, their rise to power across the Mediterranean, and their inevitable demises....
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Compressed informative intro to Venetian History
- By ConstantReader on 15-10-2019
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Versailles
- The History and Legacy of France's Most Famous Royal Palace
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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In every nation, in every era of history, there are inevitably one or two places that become the symbol of the times....
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Age of Discovery
- Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
- By: Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Turning the spotlight on the crises of our time, Age of Discovery shows how we can all define and create a lasting legacy that the world will still celebrate 500 years from now....