Medieval Politics

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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 5,113 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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    • By: Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
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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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    • The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
    • By: Dan Jones
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,640 ratings
    • The 15th century saw the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands five times as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought....

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    • A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present
    • By: Alan Ryan
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 46 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II....

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    • Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta
    • By: Marc Morris
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood - greedy, cowardly, despicable, and cruel. But who was the man behind the legend? Listen to find out....

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    • A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
    • By: Anthony Gottlieb
    • Narrated by: Anthony Gottlieb
    • Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • This landmark study of early Western thought now appears with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. Author Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of the great thinkers, questions much of conventional wisdom, and explains his findings with unbridled brilliance and clarity.....

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    • The Wars of the Roses
    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Maggie Mash
    • Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 500 ratings
    • Lancater and York is a riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and best-selling historian Alison Weir....

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    • England's Greatest Medieval Warrior
    • By: Michael Jones
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 243 ratings
    • This is a remarkable and inspiring story of one of the greatest warrior-princes of the Middle Ages - and an unforgettably vivid portrait of warfare and chivalry in the 14th century....

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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 150 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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    • Conversions to Confessions
    • By: Robin Lane Fox
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Saint Augustine is one of the most influential figures in all of Christianity, yet his path to sainthood was by no means assured....

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    • The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • For over two millennia in the West, familiarity with the literature, philosophy, and values of the Classical World has been synonymous with education itself....

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    • Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
    • By: Chris Wickham
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 2
    • Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 356 ratings
    • 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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    • The Kings and Queens Who Never Were
    • By: J.F. Andrews
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • When William the Conqueror died in 1087, he left the throne of England to William Rufus . . . his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus's elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown he saw as rightfully his....

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    • A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
    • By: Michael Gomez
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....

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    • In the Court of Henry VIII Series, Book 4
    • By: Diane Haeger
    • Narrated by: Polly Lee
    • Series: In The Court of Henry VIII, Book 4
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Though her path to the throne was long and paved with treachery, Jane Seymour would win the heart of her king—and heal her own....

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    • A Royal Tragedy
    • By: Thomas Penn
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 23 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • 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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