Medieval Lives

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    • Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague (The Middle Ages Series)
    • By: Judith M. Bennett
    • Narrated by: Laura Greaves
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method. Written in a clear and accessible style, it reworks a well-loved book to provide an entirely new resource for students, teachers, and general listeners....

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    • By: Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages....

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    • Village Life in the Middle Ages
    • By: Ann Baer
    • Narrated by: Sarah Whitehouse
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • A history of peasants in the Middle Ages, the story takes the listener into the life of Marion, the carpenter's wife, and her extended family as they struggle to survive....

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    • From the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors
    • By: Toni Mount
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Our capital city has always been a thriving and colorful place, full of diverse and determined individuals developing trade and finance, exchanging gossip and doing business....

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    • An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times
    • By: Rosalie Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Cat Gould
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Inside The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women, a fascinating book about life during medieval times, you will discover tantalizing true stories about medieval women and a myriad of historical facts....

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    • By: Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Life in a Medieval City is the classic account of the year 1250 in the city of Troyes, in modern-day France....

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    • By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,777 ratings
    • Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is the Holy Grail a cup, or something else altogether? Did Europeans really burn millions of people at the stake for witchcraft? These are just a few of the questions you will explore with the help of medieval scholar Dorsey Armstrong....

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    • Life and Death in the Middle Ages
    • By: Jack Hartnell
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy, religion, and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages....

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    • By: Leo Tolstoy
    • Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
    • Length: 35 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,665 ratings
    • Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature....

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    • The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
    • By: Judith Herrin
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Witches, Spies and Stockholm Syndrome
    • By: Finbar Dwyer
    • Narrated by: Fin Dwyer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Step back into the forgotten world of medieval Ireland, to uncover intriguing stories from the world of our distant ancestors.

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    • A New History
    • By: Jonathan Ray
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • Jewish Life in Medieval Spain is a detailed exploration of the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of 1492.

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    • Everyday Lives in Medieval England
    • By: Liza Picard
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court-men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an estate, or on the high seas....

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    • Life in the Era of Practical Magic
    • By: Tabitha Stanmore
    • Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Imagine: it’s the year 1600 and you’ve lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they’ve been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you’re facing a trial. Maybe you’re looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do?

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    • By: Chris Wickham
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,286 ratings
    • The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period....

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    • American Heritage Series
    • By: Richard Winston
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Here, National Book Award winner Richard Winston explores life in the Middle Ages - from the fifth to the 15th centuries - beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire....

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    • A New Life of Charles V
    • By: Geoffrey Parker
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 243 ratings
    • 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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    • The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
    • By: Joel L. Kraemer
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • This first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver....

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