Bestsellers
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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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A Balanced, Entertaining, and Informative History
- By Jefferson on 06-01-14
By: Marc Morris
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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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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- By Cynthia on 12-11-13
By: Jack Weatherford
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A Brief History of the Samurai
- Brief Histories
- By: Jonathan Clements
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior....
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An Excellent History of the Samurai
- By Michael on 08-08-14
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The Plantagenets
- The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world....
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Old book--new narrator
- By Kay Long/The Lady Kay on 02-02-24
By: Dan Jones
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Powers and Thrones
- A New History of the Middle Ages
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 24 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era—and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation....
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Hard to take a break from it!
- By Mariano's Music on 12-09-21
By: Dan Jones
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Iron, Fire and Ice
- The Real History That Inspired Game of Thrones
- By: Ed West
- Narrated by: Rory Barnett
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father’s death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him....
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Fun history for all -not just Game of Thrones fans
- By Annabells on 06-14-19
By: Ed West
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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
- Unabridged
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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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A Balanced, Entertaining, and Informative History
- By Jefferson on 06-01-14
By: Marc Morris
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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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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- By Cynthia on 12-11-13
By: Jack Weatherford
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A Brief History of the Samurai
- Brief Histories
- By: Jonathan Clements
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior....
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An Excellent History of the Samurai
- By Michael on 08-08-14
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The Plantagenets
- The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world....
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Old book--new narrator
- By Kay Long/The Lady Kay on 02-02-24
By: Dan Jones
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Powers and Thrones
- A New History of the Middle Ages
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 24 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era—and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation....
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Hard to take a break from it!
- By Mariano's Music on 12-09-21
By: Dan Jones
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Iron, Fire and Ice
- The Real History That Inspired Game of Thrones
- By: Ed West
- Narrated by: Rory Barnett
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father’s death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him....
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Fun history for all -not just Game of Thrones fans
- By Annabells on 06-14-19
By: Ed West
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Medieval Horizons
- Why the Middle Ages Matter
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: Ian Mortimer
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward, and unchanging time characterized by violence, ignorance, and superstition. We couldn't be more wrong.
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Altered my perception of History
- By IowaGreyhound on 06-25-24
By: Ian Mortimer
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Christendom
- The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300
- By: Peter Heather
- Narrated by: Peter Heather
- Length: 23 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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As Peter Heather shows in this compelling new history, there was nothing inevitable about Christendom's rise to Europe-wide dominance....
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Excellent, detailed history with analysis
- By Jeffry Wood on 05-30-24
By: Peter Heather
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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
- Unabridged
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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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And you thought the twentieth century was rough...
- By Rob on 03-23-06
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Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages
- By: Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Historians have only recently awakened to the importance of the family, the basic social unit throughout human history. This book traces the development of marriage and the family from the Middle Ages to the early modern era....
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Fun narration for an interesting topic
- By Anonymous User on 05-31-24
By: Frances Gies, and others
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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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Detailed, Interesting and Entertaining
- By Marc-Andr? on 05-13-10
By: Ian Mortimer
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Crusaders
- The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Templars....
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Gripping but not tidy
- By Tad Davis on 01-06-20
By: Dan Jones
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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
- Unabridged
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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....
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Extraordinary story, expertly told and skillfully narrated
- By Daniel Vergara on 03-01-24
By: Bart van Loo, and others
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The Great Mortality
- An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
- By: John Kelly
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern....
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Endless Speculation and Contradiction
- By Greg on 04-20-24
By: John Kelly
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1453
- The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
- By: Roger Crowley
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's listenable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmed II....
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A well written narrative with bizarre and biased commentary
- By Patrick D. Flynn on 08-17-17
By: Roger Crowley
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The Women of the Cousins' War
- The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother
- By: Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin, Michael Jones
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In this unique illustrated presentation, Gregory and her fellow historians describe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins’ War books....
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Great book
- By Stacey Wallace on 11-14-11
By: Philippa Gregory, and others
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The Secret History
- By: Procopius
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The Secret History, written by the sixth-century Byzantine historian Procopius, is one of the most extraordinary and scandalous documents to have survived from the early Byzantine period....
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A Bit Hyperbolic
- By HalfWit on 10-13-19
By: Procopius
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The Middle Kingdoms
- A New History of Central Europe
- By: Martyn Rady
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the region....
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Marred by the errors in the modern section
- By Paul Boothroyd on 10-20-23
By: Martyn Rady
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In the Shadow of the Sword
- The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
- By: Tom Holland
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds....
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Misleading title
- By Edd Huetteman on 04-08-16
By: Tom Holland
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The Inheritance of Rome
- Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
- By: Chris Wickham
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. The Inheritance of Rome presents a fresh understanding of the crucible in which Europe would ultimately be created....
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Excellent Intro to An Obscure Period
- By Earth Lover on 07-30-18
By: Chris Wickham
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Brothers York
- A Royal Tragedy
- By: Thomas Penn
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 23 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The Brothers York is the story of three remarkable brothers, two of whom were crowned kings of England and the other an heir presumptive, whose antagonism was fueled by the mistrust and vendettas of the age that brought their family to power....
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Absorbing detail
- By Tad Davis on 08-06-20
By: Thomas Penn
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The Moors in Spain
- By: Stanley Lane-Poole
- Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The Moors in Spain is an overview of the Moorish conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (1854 - 1931), the author, was a noted British archaeologist....
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Terrible Narration
- By Michael on 09-13-20
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Lost Enlightenment
- Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
- By: S. Frederick Starr
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise....
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Subject worthwhile but repetative narrative
- By F-M on 04-10-14
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In France Profound
- The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People
- By: T. D. Allman
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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When T. D. Allman purchased an 800-year-old house in the mountain village of Lauzerte in southwestern France, he aimed to find refuge from the world's tumults. Instead, he found that humanity’s most telling melodramas, from the paleolithic to the post-modern, were graven in its stones.
By: T. D. Allman
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Vlad III Dracula: The Life and Times of the Historical Dracula
- By: Dr. Kurt Treptow
- Narrated by: Doug Greene
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The 15th century Romanian Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, is one of the most fascinating personalities of medieval history. Already during his own lifetime, his true story became obscured by a veil of myths....
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The Definitive Biography of the Historical Dracula
- By Professor on 08-26-21
By: Dr. Kurt Treptow
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Europe Between the Oceans
- 9000 BC-AD 1000
- By: Barry Cunliffe
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe entirely reorients our understanding of Europe from 10,000 BC to the time of the Vikings....
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Books like these give the history genre a bad rep
- By Amazon Customer on 07-21-24
By: Barry Cunliffe
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Women in the Middle Ages
- The Lives of Real Women in a Vibrant Age of Transition
- By: Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Reissued for the first time in decades, this ambitious work of Medieval scholarship by bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies traces the stories and fates of women in Medieval Europe over the course of a millennium.
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Another great Gies’ title.
- By Michael S. Henderson on 07-09-24
By: Frances Gies, 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
- Unabridged
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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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History or Fiction, It’s a Story Well Told
- By Gael Dalton on 02-20-21
By: Eric Jager
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The Dark Queens
- The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
- By: Shelley Puhak
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule....
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Fascinating & Long Overdue
- By Mary E Birdsong on 10-22-22
By: Shelley Puhak
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Winters in the World
- A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year
- By: Eleanor Parker
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs, and traditions linked to the different seasons....
By: Eleanor Parker
New releases
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In France Profound
- The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People
- By: T. D. Allman
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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In prose as crystalline as his view to the Pyrenees on a clear day, Allman animates Lauzerte and its surrounding communities—Cahors, Moissac, Montauban—all ever in thrall to the magnetic impulse of Paris. Witness to so many dramas over the centuries, his house comes alive as a historical protagonist in its own right, from its wine-cellar cave to the roof where he wages futile battle with pigeons, to the life lessons it conveys. “The onward march of history, my House keeps demonstrating, never takes a rest,” he observes, pulling us vividly into his world.
By: T. D. Allman
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God's Own Gentlewoman
- The Life of Margaret Paston
- By: Diane Watt
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The remarkable story of Margaret Paston, whose letters form the most extensive collection of personal writings by a medieval English woman.
By: Diane Watt
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Viking Myths, Legends and History
- An Enthralling Exploration of Norse Mythology, Stories of Norsemen, and Vikings in England (Exploring the Past)
- By: Billy Wellman
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Step into the epic world of Vikings and Norse mythology! Whether you love history or thrilling stories, this book is for you.
By: Billy Wellman
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Life in Medieval Ireland
- Witches, Spies and Stockholm Syndrome
- By: Finbar Dwyer
- Narrated by: Fin Dwyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Step back into the forgotten world of medieval Ireland, to uncover intriguing stories from the world of our distant ancestors. Beyond well-known figures such as Strongbow, the Norman invader, lies a tapestry of untold stories of ordinary men and women—those who held no titles, owned no lands, and whose voices have faded into obscurity. In Life in Medieval Ireland, Fin Dwyer—creator of the Irish History Podcast—breathes life into an era often overshadowed by conquest and chaos.
By: Finbar Dwyer
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The Supernatural Crusades Hidden Mystical Forces and Dark Magic in the Holy Wars
- A Quest to Uncover Ancient Spells Rituals and Magic
- By: Thaddeus Shade
- Narrated by: Maeve O’Hara
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlock the hidden secrets of the Crusades in The Supernatural Crusades: Hidden Mystical Forces and Dark Magic in the Holy Wars, a captivating exploration of the shadowy undercurrents that influenced some of the most iconic battles in history. This comprehensive and meticulously researched account delves deep into the untold stories of ancient spells, forbidden rituals, and supernatural forces that were wielded by both Christian and Muslim warriors in their relentless pursuit of victory and divine favor.
By: Thaddeus Shade
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Gli intellettuali nel Medioevo
- By: Jacques Le Goff, Cesare Giardini - traduttore
- Narrated by: Dario Dossena
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Cosa voleva dire essere un "intellettuale" nei cosiddetti "secoli bui"? In questo volume, uno dei più insigni studiosi del Medioevo europeo traccia una sintesi rapida, chiara, ricca di notizie e di calzanti interpretazioni sull'argomento.
By: Jacques Le Goff, and others
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In France Profound
- The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People
- By: T. D. Allman
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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In prose as crystalline as his view to the Pyrenees on a clear day, Allman animates Lauzerte and its surrounding communities—Cahors, Moissac, Montauban—all ever in thrall to the magnetic impulse of Paris. Witness to so many dramas over the centuries, his house comes alive as a historical protagonist in its own right, from its wine-cellar cave to the roof where he wages futile battle with pigeons, to the life lessons it conveys. “The onward march of history, my House keeps demonstrating, never takes a rest,” he observes, pulling us vividly into his world.
By: T. D. Allman
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God's Own Gentlewoman
- The Life of Margaret Paston
- By: Diane Watt
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The remarkable story of Margaret Paston, whose letters form the most extensive collection of personal writings by a medieval English woman.
By: Diane Watt
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Viking Myths, Legends and History
- An Enthralling Exploration of Norse Mythology, Stories of Norsemen, and Vikings in England (Exploring the Past)
- By: Billy Wellman
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Step into the epic world of Vikings and Norse mythology! Whether you love history or thrilling stories, this book is for you.
By: Billy Wellman
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Life in Medieval Ireland
- Witches, Spies and Stockholm Syndrome
- By: Finbar Dwyer
- Narrated by: Fin Dwyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Step back into the forgotten world of medieval Ireland, to uncover intriguing stories from the world of our distant ancestors. Beyond well-known figures such as Strongbow, the Norman invader, lies a tapestry of untold stories of ordinary men and women—those who held no titles, owned no lands, and whose voices have faded into obscurity. In Life in Medieval Ireland, Fin Dwyer—creator of the Irish History Podcast—breathes life into an era often overshadowed by conquest and chaos.
By: Finbar Dwyer
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The Supernatural Crusades Hidden Mystical Forces and Dark Magic in the Holy Wars
- A Quest to Uncover Ancient Spells Rituals and Magic
- By: Thaddeus Shade
- Narrated by: Maeve O’Hara
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlock the hidden secrets of the Crusades in The Supernatural Crusades: Hidden Mystical Forces and Dark Magic in the Holy Wars, a captivating exploration of the shadowy undercurrents that influenced some of the most iconic battles in history. This comprehensive and meticulously researched account delves deep into the untold stories of ancient spells, forbidden rituals, and supernatural forces that were wielded by both Christian and Muslim warriors in their relentless pursuit of victory and divine favor.
By: Thaddeus Shade
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Gli intellettuali nel Medioevo
- By: Jacques Le Goff, Cesare Giardini - traduttore
- Narrated by: Dario Dossena
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Cosa voleva dire essere un "intellettuale" nei cosiddetti "secoli bui"? In questo volume, uno dei più insigni studiosi del Medioevo europeo traccia una sintesi rapida, chiara, ricca di notizie e di calzanti interpretazioni sull'argomento.
By: Jacques Le Goff, and others