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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- Auteur(s): Joel F. Harrington
- Narrateur(s): James Gillies
- Durée: 9 h et 39 min
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In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, from the young apprentice's rigorous training under his executioner father....
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Very interesting and surprisingly touching book
- Écrit par Jon le 2018-10-28
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Martin Luther
- The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
- Auteur(s): Eric Metaxas
- Narrateur(s): Eric Metaxas
- Durée: 20 h et 39 min
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From author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation....
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DISAPPOINTING
- Écrit par brien thurstson le 2024-03-06
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- Auteur(s): Robert Goodwin
- Narrateur(s): Jeremy Clyde
- Durée: 21 h et 2 min
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Robert Goodwin delves into previously unrecorded sources to bring a tumultuous and exciting period to life. Spain is a revealing portrait of an empire at the height of its power and a world at the dawn of a new age....
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Fatal Discord
- Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
- Auteur(s): Michael Massing
- Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
- Durée: 34 h et 52 min
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This deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history examines two of the greatest minds of European history - Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther - and their heated rivalry....
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- Auteur(s): David Wootton
- Narrateur(s): James Langton
- Durée: 22 h et 5 min
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A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....
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Good
- Écrit par ArcesseEum le 2018-01-02
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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- Auteur(s): Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller - editor and translator, C. Calvert BA - translator, Autres
- Narrateur(s): John McLain
- Durée: 4 h et 51 min
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Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment....
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would be a lot better without the glitch
- Écrit par Juliet le 2023-10-12
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- Auteur(s): Joel F. Harrington
- Narrateur(s): James Gillies
- Durée: 9 h et 39 min
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In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, from the young apprentice's rigorous training under his executioner father....
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Very interesting and surprisingly touching book
- Écrit par Jon le 2018-10-28
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Martin Luther
- The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
- Auteur(s): Eric Metaxas
- Narrateur(s): Eric Metaxas
- Durée: 20 h et 39 min
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From author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation....
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DISAPPOINTING
- Écrit par brien thurstson le 2024-03-06
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- Auteur(s): Robert Goodwin
- Narrateur(s): Jeremy Clyde
- Durée: 21 h et 2 min
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Robert Goodwin delves into previously unrecorded sources to bring a tumultuous and exciting period to life. Spain is a revealing portrait of an empire at the height of its power and a world at the dawn of a new age....
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Fatal Discord
- Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
- Auteur(s): Michael Massing
- Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
- Durée: 34 h et 52 min
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This deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history examines two of the greatest minds of European history - Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther - and their heated rivalry....
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- Auteur(s): David Wootton
- Narrateur(s): James Langton
- Durée: 22 h et 5 min
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A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....
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Good
- Écrit par ArcesseEum le 2018-01-02
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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- Auteur(s): Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller - editor and translator, C. Calvert BA - translator, Autres
- Narrateur(s): John McLain
- Durée: 4 h et 51 min
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Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment....
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would be a lot better without the glitch
- Écrit par Juliet le 2023-10-12
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England
- Auteur(s): Ian Mortimer
- Narrateur(s): Mike Grady
- Durée: 17 h et 45 min
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Organized as a travel guide for the time-hopping tourist, The Time-Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England is an entertaining popular history with a twist....
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Vagabond Princess
- The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
- Auteur(s): Ruby Lal
- Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Wiley
- Durée: 11 h et 12 min
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Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived.
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The Dawning of the Apocalypse
- The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
- Auteur(s): Gerald Horne
- Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
- Durée: 8 h et 18 min
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Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth"....
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God's Shadow
- Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
- Auteur(s): Alan Mikhail
- Narrateur(s): James Cameron Stewart
- Durée: 16 h et 11 min
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Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the 16th century, the Ottomans controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power....
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A well explained book on an influential person
- Écrit par Burak Can le 2020-08-27
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All Things Made New
- The Reformation and Its Legacy
- Auteur(s): Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Narrateur(s): Neil Scott-Barbour
- Durée: 17 h et 49 min
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The most profound characteristic of Western Europe in the Middle Ages was its cultural and religious unity, a unity secured by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome....
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Conquistadores
- A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
- Auteur(s): Fernando Cervantes
- Narrateur(s): Luis Soto
- Durée: 15 h et 8 min
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A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world....
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Excellent overview of the conquistadors
- Écrit par James Burns le 2023-04-12
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The Jewel House
- Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
- Auteur(s): Deborah Harkness
- Narrateur(s): Kate Reading
- Durée: 14 h et 13 min
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Best-selling author Deborah E. Harkness explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London....
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Protestants
- The Faith That Made the Modern World
- Auteur(s): Alec Ryrie
- Narrateur(s): Tim Bruce
- Durée: 20 h et 14 min
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In this dazzling global history that charts five centuries of innovation and change, Alec Ryrie makes the case that Protestants made the modern world....
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Rebel in the Ranks
- Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
- Auteur(s): Brad S. Gregory
- Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
- Durée: 9 h et 45 min
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On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this compelling, illuminating, and expansive religious history that examines the complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther....
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Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him
- The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throne
- Auteur(s): Tracy Borman
- Narrateur(s): Julie Teal
- Durée: 17 h et 53 min
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Recounting Henry VIII's life and signal moments through the lens of his male relationships, Tracy Borman’s new biography reveals Henry’s personality in all its multi-faceted, contradictory glory, and sheds fresh light on his reign for anyone fascinated by the Tudor era and its legacy....
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Defenders of the Faith
- Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536
- Auteur(s): James Reston Jr.
- Narrateur(s): Jim Meskimen
- Durée: 14 h et 48 min
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A best-selling historian recounts 16 years that shook the world - the epic clash between Europe and the Ottoman Turks that ended the Renaissance and brought Islam to the gates of Vienna....
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The Teutonic Knights
- A Military History
- Auteur(s): William Urban
- Narrateur(s): Brian Troxell
- Durée: 12 h et 49 min
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The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. William Urban's narrative charts the rise and fall of the Order and, in an accessible and engaging style, throws light on a band of knights whose deeds and motives have long been misunderstood....
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In Bed with the Tudors
- From Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I
- Auteur(s): Amy Licence
- Narrateur(s): Debra Burton
- Durée: 7 h et 33 min
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Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders....
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Unfabling the East
- The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
- Auteur(s): Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
- Narrateur(s): Ric Jerrom
- Durée: 25 h et 49 min
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During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....
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Popes and Feminists
- How the Reformation Frees Women from Feminism
- Auteur(s): Elise Crapuchettes
- Narrateur(s): Elise Crapuchettes
- Durée: 4 h et 35 min
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Before the Reformation, in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church, being a wife or mother was not a holy vocation. The only “spiritual” calling for women was to be found in a convent. The Reformers confronted the bad theology which led to this....
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Mary Boleyn
- The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress
- Auteur(s): Josephine Wilkinson
- Narrateur(s): Debra Burton
- Durée: 5 h et 4 min
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Mary Boleyn, ‘the infamous other Boleyn girl’, began her court career as the mistress of the king of France....
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Margaret Beaufort
- Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Norton
- Narrateur(s): Debra Burton
- Durée: 5 h et 47 min
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Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time....
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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
- Auteur(s): Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
- Narrateur(s): Frasier Mackenzie
- Durée: 5 h et 5 min
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Cabeza de Vaca was part of a 1527 Spanish expedition to explore the region north of the Gulf of Mexico. His group lost contact with their ships, and traveled on foot across Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico for the next eight years....
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London's Triumph
- Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
- Auteur(s): Stephen Alford
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 10 h et 31 min
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At the start of the 16th century, England was hardly involved in the wider world, and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city....
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Shakespeare's Restless World
- Auteur(s): Neil MacGregor
- Narrateur(s): Neil MacGregor
- Durée: 4 h et 30 min
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What was life like for Shakespeare's first audiences? In this fascinating series, Neil MacGregor attempts to answer these questions by examining 20 objects from that turbulent period....
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Spanish Empire
- A History from Beginning to End
- Auteur(s): Hourly History
- Narrateur(s): Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Durée: 1 h et 7 min
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The Spanish Empire was the first truly global empire and the first to be described as one on which “the sun never sets.” It rapidly grew to become one of the largest and most powerful empires in the history of the world and brought us goods such as potatoes, chocolate....
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England in the Age of Shakespeare
- Auteur(s): Jeremy Black
- Narrateur(s): Simon Barber
- Durée: 12 h et 39 min
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In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard’s era....
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Rinascimento Privato
- Auteur(s): Maria Bellonci
- Narrateur(s): Anna Bonaiuto
- Durée: 21 h et 53 min
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Una sera di settembre del 1533 Isabella d’Este, quasi sessantenne, rievoca la propria vicenda: dall’infanzia a Ferrara al matrimonio, sedicenne, con il marchese...
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Elizabeth's London
- Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
- Auteur(s): Liza Picard
- Narrateur(s): Liza Picard
- Durée: 7 h et 24 min
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Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London....