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Shakespeare's Restless World
- Written by: Neil MacGregor
- Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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What was life like for Shakespeare's first audiences? In a time of political and religious unrest and economic expansion, how did Elizabethan play-goers make sense of their changing world? What did the plays mean to the public when they were first performed? In this fascinating series, Neil MacGregor attempts to answer these questions by examining 20 objects from that turbulent period. There are grand objects such as a communion chalice, a Venetian goblet, and Dr Dee's mirror, as well as everyday items.
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Shakespeare's Restless World
- Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2012-06-21
- Language: English
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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
- Written by: Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
- Narrated by: Frasier Mackenzie
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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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. This work, written in 1542 as an official report to the king of Spain, is a rich source of information on the ancient Southwest: the indigenous people, the climate, and the flora and fauna.
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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
- Narrated by: Frasier Mackenzie
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-01
- Language: English
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Unfabling the East
- The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
- Written by: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
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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. In this panoramic book, author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan. A momentous work by one of Europe's most eminent historians, Unfabling the East takes listeners on a thrilling voyage to the farthest shores, bringing back vital insights for our own multicultural age.
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Unfabling the East
- The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-13
- Language: English
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Elizabeth I and Her Circle
- Written by: Susan Doran
- Narrated by: Joanna Daniel
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. Using a wide range of original sources - including private letters, portraits, verse, drama, and state papers - Susan Doran provides a vivid and often dramatic account of political life in Elizabethan England and the queen at its center.
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Elizabeth I and Her Circle
- Narrated by: Joanna Daniel
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-23
- Language: English
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The Mirror of Great Britain
- A Life of James VI & I
- Written by: Clare Jackson
- Length: Not yet known
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James VI & I, who died 400 years ago, was one of Britain’s most consequential and interesting monarchs, not least in creating the British monarchy itself by joining the English and Scottish thrones. A major intellectual, James's preoccupations ranged from witchcraft and theological controversy to hunting, diplomacy, poetry and sartorial fashion. The 'Mirror of Great Britain' was a spectacular jewel that gave symbolic endorsement to James's vision of British union, but mirrors themselves supplied James with one of his favourite literary metaphors.
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The Mirror of Great Britain
- A Life of James VI & I
- Length: Not yet known
- Release date: 2025-08-28
- Language: English
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Convent Wisdom
- How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
- Written by: Ana Garriga, Carmen Urbita
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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When most of us think of nuns, we picture hands clasped in prayer, solemn shuffles down cloistered halls, and that iconic habit silhouette. But what about the nuns who ate spiderwebs, erupted into jealous fights over makeup, or chain-produced manuscripts for extra cash? In reality, these women were no one-dimensional martyrs. 16th- and 17th-century nuns were resourceful, rebellious, and refreshingly relatable—and their lives hold surprising lessons for us today.
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Convent Wisdom
- How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-04
- Language: English
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Rinascimento Privato
- Written by: Maria Bellonci
- Narrated by: Anna Bonaiuto
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
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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 Francesco Gonzaga, e poi la vita a Mantova dove, in un periodo tra i più tumultuosi e fulgidi della storia, nei primi decenni del Cinquecento, resse con grande sapienza politica le fila del piccolo Stato costruendo attorno a sé una corte di ineguagliato splendore, tra pittori poeti musicisti astrologi condottieri papi e imperatori.
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Rinascimento Privato
- Narrated by: Anna Bonaiuto
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-17
- Language: Italian
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Renaissance
- The European Cultural, Artistic, Political and Economic Rebirth
- Written by: Kelly Mass
- Narrated by: Chris Newman
- Length: 49 mins
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When we think of the Renaissance, we often think of paintings. And indeed, many painters and sculptors were part of the artistic transformation the Renaissance caused. But there was more. The Renaissance basically formed a period of collective enlightenment and freedoms that put an end to certain tyrannies and false notions from the Middle Ages. Advocates of a "long Renaissance" might put its start in the 14th century and its end in the 17th century. Let’s take a look at what the extensive time period of the Renaissance provided, and what it leaves us with today.
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Renaissance
- The European Cultural, Artistic, Political and Economic Rebirth
- Narrated by: Chris Newman
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 2022-07-14
- Language: English
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Edward VI
- England's Boy King
- Written by: B. R. Egginton
- Narrated by: Paul Draper
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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King at 9 and dead at 15, Edward VI oversaw a brief but dramatic chapter in English history. Described by his father as his "most precious jewel", Edward’s birth in 1537 marked the end of Henry VIII’s quest to procure a son and heir to continue the Tudor dynasty. But even kings can’t choose their destiny, and the boy’s premature demise prevented the intelligent, ambitious, and strong-minded youth’s potential from being fulfilled. Reliant on councillors to govern the kingdom on his behalf, his reign was not a happy time.
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Edward VI
- England's Boy King
- Narrated by: Paul Draper
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2022-05-31
- Language: English
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The Elizabethan Mind
- Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty
- Written by: Helen Hackett
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
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What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and soul? These questions were as perplexing for the Elizabethans as they are for us today—although their answers were often startlingly different. Shakespeare and his contemporaries believed the mind was governed by the humors and passions, and was susceptible to the Devil’s interference. In this insightful and wide-ranging account, Helen Hackett explores the intricacies of Elizabethan ideas about the mind.
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The Elizabethan Mind
- Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2022-06-28
- Language: English
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G/GESCHICHTE - Der Bauernkrieg
- Deutschlands großer Volksaufstand
- Written by: G Geschichte
- Narrated by: Clemens Benke
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
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Der Bauernkrieg - Deutschlands großer Volksaufstand. Im Gegensatz zum weitverbreiteten Irrglaube sind die Auswirkungen des Bauernaufstandes von 1524 bis 1526 auch in unserer heutigen Gesellschaft noch erkennbar. Was damals wirklich geschah und wie dieser Aufstand zu einem der tragenden Momente der deutschen Geschichte wird, zeigt dieses Hörbuch. Es werden elementare Persönlichkeiten der damaligen Zeit beleuchtet und der Historiker Ulrich Niggemann zieht eine Bilanz darüber, was die Bauern wirklich erreicht haben.
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G/GESCHICHTE - Der Bauernkrieg
- Deutschlands großer Volksaufstand
- Narrated by: Clemens Benke
- Series: G/GESCHICHTE
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-08
- Language: German
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England in the Age of Shakespeare
- Written by: Jeremy Black
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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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. Panning from play to audience and back again, Black shows how Shakespeare's plays would have been experienced and interpreted by those who paid to see them. From the dangers of travel to the indignities of everyday life in teeming London, Black explores the jokes, political and economic references, and small asides that Shakespeare’s audiences would have recognized.
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England in the Age of Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-29
- Language: English
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London's Triumph
- Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
- Written by: Stephen Alford
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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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. Stephen Alford's evocative, original new audiobook brings to life the network of merchants, visionaries, crooks, and sailors who changed London and England forever. In a sudden explosion of energy, English ships were suddenly found all over the world - trading with Russia and the Levant, exploring Virginia and the Arctic, and fanning out across the Indian Ocean. The people who made this possible are as interesting as any of those at court.
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London's Triumph
- Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2019-08-13
- Language: English
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I giorni di Roma - 6 maggio 1527. Il sacco di Roma
- Lezioni di Storia
- Written by: Antonio Pinelli
- Narrated by: Antonio Pinelli
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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"Il 6 maggio abbiamo preso d'assalto Roma, ucciso seimila persone, saccheggiato le case, preso quello che abbiamo trovato nelle chiese e alla fine incendiato buona parte della città". Così un lanzichenecco descrive il saccheggio che le truppe imperiali infliggono a Roma. Le truppe a difesa della città sono deboli, le mura e l'artiglieria non bastano a fermare gli assedianti. Clemente VII riesce a riparare a Castel Sant'Angelo solo grazie al sacrificio dell'intera Guardia svizzera.
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I giorni di Roma - 6 maggio 1527. Il sacco di Roma
- Lezioni di Storia
- Narrated by: Antonio Pinelli
- Series: Lezioni di Storia, Book 14
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 2019-06-07
- Language: Italian
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The Lazy Historian's Guide to the Wives of Henry VIII
- Written by: Jillianne Hamilton
- Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Penned by a lifelong “Henry Head”, The Lazy Historian's Guide to the Wives of Henry VIII combines Jillianne Hamilton's sassy, fun, and snarky storytelling with one of history's most alluring eras. Focusing on the lives of the wives, and less about the dudes around them, The Lazy Historian's Guide to the Wives of Henry VIII gives the six unfortunate queens the biography for which they almost certainly wouldn't have asked.
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The Lazy Historian's Guide to the Wives of Henry VIII
- Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-18
- Language: English
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Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame
- Penguin Monarchs, Book 2
- Written by: John Guy
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame by John Guy, read by John Banks. Henry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. Magnificent, tyrannical, a strong ruler, a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most notorious of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: a devout traditionalist who oversaw a cataclysmic rupture with the church in Rome, a talented, charismatic, imposing figure who nevertheless could not bear to meet people's eyes when he talked to them.
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Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame
- Penguin Monarchs, Book 2
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Series: Penguin Monarchs
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-28
- Language: English
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Henri IV
- L'Histoire de France Vivante
- Written by: Frédéric Nort
- Narrated by: Gisèle Casadesus, Bernard Cheran, Jean-Marie Fertey, and others
- Length: 36 mins
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Cette collection "L'Histoire de France vivante" nous faire revivre les grandes heures de l'histoire de France. Pour chaque époque, l'illustration sonore est faite avec des musiques de la période concernée. Les grands moments de chaque période sont reconstitués à la façon d'une pièce de théâtre, avec plusieurs comédiens et comédiennes qui interprètent les personnages historiques.
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Henri IV
- L'Histoire de France Vivante
- Narrated by: Gisèle Casadesus, Bernard Cheran, Jean-Marie Fertey, José Squindel
- Series: L'Histoire de France Vivante
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 2018-01-12
- Language: French
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The Children of Henry VIII
- Written by: John Guy
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and perpetuating his dynasty. To that end he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the Pope, all in an age of international competition and warfare, social unrest and growing religious intolerance and discord.
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The Children of Henry VIII
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-06
- Language: English
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Redeeming 'The Prince'
- The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece
- Written by: Maurizio Viroli
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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In Redeeming "The Prince", one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western political tradition. Overturning popular misconceptions and challenging scholarly consensus, Maurizio Viroli also provides a fresh introduction to the work. Seen from this original perspective, five centuries after its composition, The Prince offers new insights into the nature and possibilities of political liberation.
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Redeeming 'The Prince'
- The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-27
- Language: English
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The Reformation [Modern Library Chronicles]
- Written by: Patrick Collinson
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Renowned scholar Patrick Collinson is Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, Cambridge. He states, "The Reformation (and Counter Reformation) was the blast furnace in which the modern state was forged." This engaging work offers a concise overview of the ecumenical revolution of the late medieval and Renaissance periods. Narrator John McDonough's presentation of the spiritual and the secular elements that led to religious reform will captivate listeners.
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The Reformation [Modern Library Chronicles]
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2005-08-08
- Language: English
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