Renaissance Politics

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    • Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
    • By: James Hankins
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 23 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars....

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    • Assassin's Creed, Book 1
    • By: Oliver Bowden
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Series: Assassin's Creed, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,120 ratings
    • Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, Ezio Auditore embarks upon an epic quest for vengeance. To eradicate corruption and restore his family's honor, he will learn the art of the Assassins....

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    • How the World Became Modern
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,450 ratings
    • Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued a crucial Roman philosophical text from certain oblivion....

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    • Renaissance Queen of France
    • By: Leonie Frieda
    • Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 502 ratings
    • Poisoner, despot, necromancer - the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds....

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    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 642 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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    • The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens
    • By: Sylvia Barbara Soberton
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • There has been a great deal written about Tudor queens, but less so about those women who surrounded the throne, who may have held even more power and influence than those who actually wore the golden crown. This is the story of the ladies of the Tudor court....

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    • Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
    • By: John Julius Norwich
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • John Julius Norwich has crafted a big, bold tapestry of the early 16th century, when Europe and the Middle East were overshadowed by a quartet of legendary rulers....

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    • How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
    • By: Jim Al-Khalili
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance....

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    • The Story of the Tudor Queens
    • By: Roland Hui
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Ten remarkable women. One remarkable era. In the Tudor period, 1485 to 1603, a host of fascinating women sat on the English throne. The dramatic events of their lives are told in The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens....

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    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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    • A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
    • By: Rachel E. Cargle
    • Narrated by: Rachel E. Cargle
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • There are breaking points in all our lives when we realize that the way things have been done before just don’t work for us anymore, be it the way we approach our relationships, our belief systems, our work, our education, even our rest....

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    • By: C.J. Sansom
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Series: The Shardlake Series, Book 7
    • Length: 37 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 479 ratings
    • The nominal king, Edward VI, is 11 years old. His uncle, Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Edward's regent and Protector. In the kingdom, radical Protestants are driving the old religion into extinction, while the Protector's prolonged war with Scotland has led to hyperinflation....

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    • Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance
    • By: Alex Jones, Kent Heckenlively - contributor
    • Narrated by: Simon Sharp
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • In The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance, the most persecuted man on Earth, Alex Jones, gives you the good news about the failing plans of the globalists to control humanity....

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    • The Hidden History
    • By: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Enn Reitel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 719 ratings
    • The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone....

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    • A Novel of World War II and da Vinci's Italy
    • By: Laura Morelli
    • Narrated by: Reba Buhr, Christa Lewis, Paul Woodson, P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 439 ratings
    • An exciting, dual-timeline historical novel about the creation of one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings, Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine, and the woman who fought to save it from Nazi destruction during World War II....

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    • 7 Rules for Turbulent Times
    • By: Eduard Habsburg
    • Narrated by: Eduard Habsburg
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Eduard Habsburg, a member of the family and archduke of Austria, shares insights about the Seven Principles (maxims) at the root of Habsburg thought, action, politics, and family life....

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    • How Women Wrote the Renaissance
    • By: Ramie Targoff
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare’s England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-sixteenth century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men....

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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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