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Author: Peter Heather | Narrator: Peter Heather
Release Date: April 04, 2023
'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Superb storytelling ... captivating and profound' Literary Review'A page-turner' The Spectator*A major new reinterpretation of Christendom, by one of...
Author: Dan Jones | Narrator: Dan Jones
Release Date: November 09, 2021
"Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-‘new’ present . . . All medieval history is here, beautifully narrated . . . Th...
Author: Dan Jones | Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Release Date: September 21, 2021
From the New York Times bestselling author of Crusaders and a top authority on the historical events that inspired Game of Thrones, a vivid, blood-soaked account of one of the most famous rebellions in history—the first mass uprising by th...
Author: Dan Jones | Narrator: Dan Jones
Release Date: October 01, 2019
A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the author of Powers and Thrones.For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side...
Author: Violet Moller | Narrator: Susan Duerden
Release Date: May 14, 2019
“The Map of Knowledge is an endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeAfter the Fall of ...
Author: Joel F. Harrington | Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Life and times of the 14th century German spiritual leader Meister Eckhart, whose theory of a personal path to the divine inspired thinkers from Jean Paul Sartre to Thomas Merton, and most recently, Eckhart TolleMeister Eckhart was a medieval Ch...
Author: Dan Jones | Narrator: Dan Jones
Release Date: October 20, 2015
"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." —Antonia FraserFrom the New York Times bestselling author ...
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Author: Thomas B. Costain | Narrator: David Case
Release Date: January 06, 2009
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 th...
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Author: Thomas B. Costain | Narrator: David Case
Release Date: January 06, 2009
The Three Edwards is the third audiobook in Thomas B. Costain's The History of the Plantagenet series.
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Author: Thomas B. Costain | Narrator: David Case
Release Date: January 06, 2009
The Magnificent Century, the second volume of Costain's A History of the Plantagenets, covers Henry III's long and turbulent reign, from 1216 to 1272. During his lifetime Henry was frequently unpopular, unreliable and inconsistent. Yet his reign saw ...
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Author: Thomas Cahill | Narrator: Thomas Cahill
Release Date: October 24, 2006
After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilizati...
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Author: R. W. B. Lewis | Narrator: Grover Gardner
Release Date: June 06, 2001
In Dante, Lewis traces the life and complex development—emotional, artistic, philosophical—of this supreme poet-historian, from his wanderings through Tuscan hills and splendid churches to his days as a young soldier fighting for democrac...
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