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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe
    • By: Robert Bartlett
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
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    • This engaging and original history of dynastic power in Latin Christendom and Byzantium explores the role played by family dynamics and family consciousness in the politics of the royal and imperial dynasties of Europe....

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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
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    • 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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    • The Righteous King
    • By: Ian Mortimer
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 22 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 225 ratings
    • The talented, confident, and intelligent son of John of Gaunt, Henry IV started his reign as a popular and charismatic king after he dethroned the tyrannical and wildly unpopular Richard II....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 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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    • 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 233 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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    • Passion and Politics in Late Medieval France: the Story of Anne of Brittany’s Marriage to Charles VIII
    • By: Rozsa Gaston
    • Narrated by: Anna Parker-Naples
    • Series: Anne of Brittany, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • When Anne of Brittany's father dies in 1488, she becomes Duchess of Brittany, her country's ruler at age 11. For the next three years, the unmarried, orphaned duchess is pursued by suitors while Brittany is invaded by its larger, more powerful neighbor of France....

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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 244 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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    • 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 192 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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    • 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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    • The English in France 1337-1453
    • By: Desmond Seward
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • Desmond Seward's critically acclaimed account of the Hundred Years War brings to life all of the intrigue, beauty, and royal to-the-death-fighting of that legendary century-long conflict.

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    • The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Revised and Updated Edition)
    • By: Jean Manco
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? New research in the fields of archaeology and linguistics, a revolution in the study of genetics, and cutting-edge analysis of ancient DNA are dramatically changing our picture of prehistory....

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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 26 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....

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