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The Arab Sieges of Constantinople
- The History of the Umayyad Caliphate’s Attempts to Conquer the Byzantine Capital
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Amid the upheaval in the Islamic world following Muhammad’s death, the Umayyad Caliphate lasted for less than a century, but it spent that time becoming one of the most influential of the major caliphates. Its official existence was from 661-750, and the rulers were the male members of the Umayyad dynasty, roughly translated from Arabic as the “Sons of Umayyah.” Its primary base of power was in Syria following the creation of a dynastic, hereditary rule headed by one of Syria’s long-lasting governors, Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan.
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Im Schein von Gold und Feuer. Die verborgene Welt der Wikinger
- By: Eleanor Barraclough
- Narrated by: Sandra Voss
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Neue Funde entschlüsseln die Vergangenheit: Das wahre Leben der Wikinger – so, wie es noch nie erzählt wurde. Hier werden die Geschichten der Anderen erzählt – Kinder, Versklavte, Seher, Handwerker, Reisende und Schriftsteller –, die das nordische Mittelalter prägten. Eleanor Barraclough lässt ihre Welt durch Alltagsfunde lebendig werden: einen geliebten Kamm, eine zornige Botschaft auf Holz, Kinderkritzeleien auf Birkenrinde. So entsteht ein faszinierendes Bild einer Kultur, die sich von Skandinavien bis nach Byzanz und ins Kalifat erstreckte.
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The House of Wisdom
- How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
- By: Jonathan Lyons
- Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to visit cities like Baghdad or Antioch. There, philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers were steadily advancing the frontiers of knowledge, as well as keeping alive the works of Plato and Aristotle. When the best libraries in Europe held several dozen books, Baghdad's great library, The House of Wisdom, housed four hundred thousand .
By: Jonathan Lyons
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Ein Jahr im Mittelalter
- By: Tillmann Bendikowski
- Narrated by: Daniel Buser
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In zwölf Kapiteln schildert er Monat für Monat, wie das Leben im 12. Jahrhundert organisiert war – auf dem Land wie in den neu entstehenden Städten, im Kloster wie auf der Burg, zwischen Mann und Frau, zwischen Lehnsherr und Bauer, im Gerichtswesen wie auf Reisen. Eine spannend erzählte Zeitreise und Alltagsgeschichte mit überraschenden Einblicken in eine Epoche, die fern und exotisch erscheint, aber in vielen Aspekten auch ein bleibender Teil unserer Geschichte ist.
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Self-Help from the Middle Ages
- What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living
- By: Peter Jones
- Narrated by: Peter Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this charming journey into the past, a historian reveals medieval wisdom that can still guide us today "One of the most compelling medieval history books I have ever read." –Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England Peter Jones was teaching medieval history at...
By: Peter Jones
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Europe
- A New History
- By: Roderick Beaton
- Narrated by: Alisdair Simpson
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A bold new history of Europe, from ancient Greece to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe, award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never...
By: Roderick Beaton
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The Arab Sieges of Constantinople
- The History of the Umayyad Caliphate’s Attempts to Conquer the Byzantine Capital
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Amid the upheaval in the Islamic world following Muhammad’s death, the Umayyad Caliphate lasted for less than a century, but it spent that time becoming one of the most influential of the major caliphates. Its official existence was from 661-750, and the rulers were the male members of the Umayyad dynasty, roughly translated from Arabic as the “Sons of Umayyah.” Its primary base of power was in Syria following the creation of a dynastic, hereditary rule headed by one of Syria’s long-lasting governors, Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan.
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Im Schein von Gold und Feuer. Die verborgene Welt der Wikinger
- By: Eleanor Barraclough
- Narrated by: Sandra Voss
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Neue Funde entschlüsseln die Vergangenheit: Das wahre Leben der Wikinger – so, wie es noch nie erzählt wurde. Hier werden die Geschichten der Anderen erzählt – Kinder, Versklavte, Seher, Handwerker, Reisende und Schriftsteller –, die das nordische Mittelalter prägten. Eleanor Barraclough lässt ihre Welt durch Alltagsfunde lebendig werden: einen geliebten Kamm, eine zornige Botschaft auf Holz, Kinderkritzeleien auf Birkenrinde. So entsteht ein faszinierendes Bild einer Kultur, die sich von Skandinavien bis nach Byzanz und ins Kalifat erstreckte.
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The House of Wisdom
- How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
- By: Jonathan Lyons
- Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to visit cities like Baghdad or Antioch. There, philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers were steadily advancing the frontiers of knowledge, as well as keeping alive the works of Plato and Aristotle. When the best libraries in Europe held several dozen books, Baghdad's great library, The House of Wisdom, housed four hundred thousand .
By: Jonathan Lyons
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Ein Jahr im Mittelalter
- By: Tillmann Bendikowski
- Narrated by: Daniel Buser
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In zwölf Kapiteln schildert er Monat für Monat, wie das Leben im 12. Jahrhundert organisiert war – auf dem Land wie in den neu entstehenden Städten, im Kloster wie auf der Burg, zwischen Mann und Frau, zwischen Lehnsherr und Bauer, im Gerichtswesen wie auf Reisen. Eine spannend erzählte Zeitreise und Alltagsgeschichte mit überraschenden Einblicken in eine Epoche, die fern und exotisch erscheint, aber in vielen Aspekten auch ein bleibender Teil unserer Geschichte ist.
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Self-Help from the Middle Ages
- What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living
- By: Peter Jones
- Narrated by: Peter Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this charming journey into the past, a historian reveals medieval wisdom that can still guide us today "One of the most compelling medieval history books I have ever read." –Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England Peter Jones was teaching medieval history at...
By: Peter Jones
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Europe
- A New History
- By: Roderick Beaton
- Narrated by: Alisdair Simpson
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance0
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A bold new history of Europe, from ancient Greece to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe, award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never...
By: Roderick Beaton