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The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.
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Gossip
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De: Paul Strathern
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Tudor History
- A Captivating Guide to the Tudors, the Wars of the Roses, the Six Wives of Henry VIII and the Life of Elizabeth I
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Desmond Manny
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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Five Tudor monarchs sat on the throne of England and Ireland from 1485 to 1603. The family earned their royal rights through strategic planning and battlefield prowess, and kept them because of intellect, strength, and sheer determination. The Tudors, one of England’s most powerful and famous royal dynasties, knitted together a fragmented and small island nation that became one of the world’s financial, colonial, and technological superpowers.
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A facinating guide.
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Daughters of Chivalry
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Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized—and largely mythical—notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of Edward I, often known as Longshanks. The lives of these sisters—Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary, and Elizabeth—ran the gamut of experiences open to royal women in the Middle Ages.
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fascinating!
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The Tudors: A Captivating Guide to the History of England from Henry VII to Elizabeth I
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Desmond Manny
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Five Tudor monarchs sat on the throne of England and Ireland from 1485 to 1603. The family earned their royal rights through strategic planning and battlefield prowess, and kept them because of intellect, strength, and sheer determination. The Tudors, one of England’s most powerful and famous royal dynasties, knitted together a fragmented and small island nation that became one of the world’s financial, colonial, and technological superpowers.
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Victoria's Daughters
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Vicky, Alice, Helena, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two of these princesses would themselves produce children of immense consequence. All five would curiously come to share many of the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by 19th-century women of less-exulted class.
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Terrible Narrator
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Sister Queens
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- De: Julia Fox
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The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn. Katherine’s sister, Juana of Castile, wife of Philip of Burgundy and mother of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is portrayed as “Juana the Mad,” whose erratic behavior included keeping her beloved late husband’s coffin beside her for years.
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Sad but Fascinating Lives
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The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor
- Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen
- De: Elizabeth Norton
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England, late 1547. King Henry VIII is dead. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the king's widow, Catherine Parr, and her new husband, Thomas Seymour. Seymour is the brother of Henry VIII's third wife, the late Jane Seymour, who was the mother to the now-ailing boy king. Ambitious and dangerous, Seymour begins an overt flirtation with Elizabeth that ends with Catherine sending her away. When Catherine dies a year later and Seymour is arrested for treason soon after, a scandal explodes.
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Thomas Seymour Biography
- De Janice B. en 10-17-20
De: Elizabeth Norton
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The Conquering Family
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Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with The Conquering Family and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216. The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between monarch and people, comes to life through Costain's storytelling skill and historical imagination.
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An Entrancing History of the Early Plantegenets
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Blood, Fire & Gold
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- De: Estelle Paranque
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Sixteenth-century Europe was a hostile world dominated by court politics and patriarchal structures, and yet against all odds, two women rose to power: Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. One a young Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom alone, and the other a more experienced and clandestine leader who used her children to shape the dynasties of Europe, much has been written about these shrewd and strategic sovereigns. But though their individual legacies have been heavily scrutinized, nothing has been said of their complicated relationship.
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16th Century Feminists
- De Tommy en 01-23-23
De: Estelle Paranque
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Emperor
- A New Life of Charles V
- De: Geoffrey Parker
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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. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relentless travel and the control of his own image, together with the complexity of governing the world's first transatlantic empire, complicate the task.
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Amazing.
- De bigdjunta en 10-21-19
De: Geoffrey Parker
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Daughters of the Winter Queen
- Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- De: Nancy Goldstone
- Narrado por: Laura Kirman
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Young Elizabeth Stuart was thrust into a life of wealth and splendor when her godmother, Queen Elizabeth I, died and her father, James I, ascended to the illustrious throne of England. At 16 she was married to a dashing German count far below her rank, with the understanding that James would help her husband achieve the crown of Bohemia. Her father's terrible betrayal of this promise would ruin "the Winter Queen", as Elizabeth would forever be known, imperil the lives of those she loved, and launch a war that would last for 30 years.
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Misnamed but Wonderful
- De Anonymous User en 05-16-18
De: Nancy Goldstone
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The Women of the Cousins' War
- The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother
- De: Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin, Michael Jones
- Narrado por: Bianca Amato
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In her essay on Jacquetta, Philippa Gregory uses original documents, archaeology and histories of myth and witchcraft to create the first-ever biography of the young duchess who was to survive two reigns and two wars to become the first lady at two rival courts. David Baldwin, established author on the Wars of the Roses, tells the story of Elizabeth Woodville, the first commoner to marry a king of England for love, and Michael Jones, fellow of the Royal Historical Society, writes of Margaret Beaufort, the almost-unknown matriarch of the House of Tudor. The Women of the Cousins’ War will appeal to all.
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Great book
- De Stacey Wallace en 11-14-11
De: Philippa Gregory, y otros
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In lively, absorbing prose that rivals the finest literary fiction, prize-winning historian Carolly Erickson recreates the life of the notorious Tudor king, Henry VIII. In his youth as a charming national hero, his reign as a monstrous king, and his final days as a tottering old man, Erickson draws a thoroughly convincing portrait of one of English history’s most notorious characters.
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With his tumultuous love life, relentless pursuit of a male heir, and drastic religious transformation, England's King Henry VIII's life sounds more like reality television than history. He was a man of fascinating contradictions. What could have caused his incredible paradoxes? Could there be a simple medical explanation for the king's descent into tyranny? Where do the answers lie? Blood will tell.
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The Red Prince
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Excellent historical reference
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The Black Prince
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As a child, he was given his own suit of armor; at the age of 16, he helped defeat the French at Crecy. At Poitiers, in 1356, his victory over King John II of France forced the French into a humiliating surrender that marked the zenith of England's dominance in the Hundred Years War. As lord of Aquitaine, he ruled a vast swathe of territory across the west and southwest of France, holding a magnificent court at Bordeaux that mesmerized the brave but unruly Gascon nobility. He was Edward of Woodstock, eldest son of Edward III, and better known to posterity as "the Black Prince".
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Outstanding history
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Scourge of Henry VIII
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- M. Price
- 08-19-23
Interesting but uneven telling of the story of Marie de Guise
I did learn details about Marie de Guise that I hadn’t heard before, but I would like to know more about the sources of the information. There was quite a bit of speculation as to what Marie and others were thinking and feeling that really didn’t contribute to the story since we don’t know if the speculations are accurate. I didn’t like the narrator’s voice at first, but I got more used to it as I listened. Finally, the title of the book is misleading. Marie is certainly not presented as “the scourge of Henry VIII”!
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- Guinevere
- 01-17-20
interesting book!
I never learned so much about Mary de Guise everything that I had seen or heard was so very wrong. Everyone should learn about this awesome woman in history
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- Maxine B. Jones
- 02-07-23
Interesting info
There was so much I never knew. It was presented well and narrated well. You are shown so much more about Mary’s mother than is normally available. Well done!?
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- Cole
- 12-06-20
Not a bad book, narrator is not a good speaker.
As far as the narrator goes, I've heard better clearer performances from high school actors.
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- 04-14-20
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The pro: I was introduced to a woman that seems fascinating.
The cons of the book:
No mention of the book's primary sources.
The book has very little to do with Henry VIII. And there was no scourging going on. No sense of some sort of head to head intrigue or battle between the two. The title was utterly misleading.
The book managed to take the life of a very interesting woman and make it boring.
There was a lot of padding to it. Are there so few sources on Marie that we needed to spend so much time on what she might have eaten as a child?
Loads and loads of "she might have felt" and "she must have been" statements. Instead of making Marie come alive as it was probably meant to, all it did was trivialize the information in the book. It became increasingly obnoxious.
This was a silly biography, not worth even the few short hours I spent on it.
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