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Bestsellers
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Martin Luther
- The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
- De: Eric Metaxas
- Narrado por: Eric Metaxas
- Duración: 20 h y 39 m
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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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A Metaxas Hat Trick
- De Tommy en 11-04-17
De: Eric Metaxas
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Conquistadores
- A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
- De: Fernando Cervantes
- Narrado por: Luis Soto
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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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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A fresh mature perspective on the Spanish conquest
- De Chencheno111 en 03-19-22
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Spice
- The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
- De: Roger Crowley
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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The story of the 16th-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.
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Spice or Megellan?
- De BarbieAlaska en 06-21-24
De: Roger Crowley
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The Private Lives of the Tudors
- Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
- De: Tracy Borman
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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England's Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I - are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history....
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The Narration Is Awful
- De Appollo 500 en 10-27-18
De: Tracy Borman
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- De: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrado por: James Gillies
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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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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Excellent
- De James en 03-30-18
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Fatal Discord
- Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
- De: Michael Massing
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 34 h y 52 m
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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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Excellent work - up until the discussion of America
- De Michele Esposito en 08-24-19
De: Michael Massing
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Martin Luther
- The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
- De: Eric Metaxas
- Narrado por: Eric Metaxas
- Duración: 20 h y 39 m
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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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A Metaxas Hat Trick
- De Tommy en 11-04-17
De: Eric Metaxas
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Conquistadores
- A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
- De: Fernando Cervantes
- Narrado por: Luis Soto
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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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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A fresh mature perspective on the Spanish conquest
- De Chencheno111 en 03-19-22
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Spice
- The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
- De: Roger Crowley
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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The story of the 16th-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.
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Spice or Megellan?
- De BarbieAlaska en 06-21-24
De: Roger Crowley
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The Private Lives of the Tudors
- Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
- De: Tracy Borman
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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England's Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I - are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history....
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The Narration Is Awful
- De Appollo 500 en 10-27-18
De: Tracy Borman
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- De: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrado por: James Gillies
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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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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Excellent
- De James en 03-30-18
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Fatal Discord
- Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
- De: Michael Massing
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 34 h y 52 m
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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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Excellent work - up until the discussion of America
- De Michele Esposito en 08-24-19
De: Michael Massing
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Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him
- The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throne
- De: Tracy Borman
- Narrado por: Julie Teal
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
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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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Exceptional.
- De bigdjunta en 08-02-19
De: Tracy Borman
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Unfabling the East
- The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
- De: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 25 h y 49 m
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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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The Prequel to ‘Orientalism’
- De Amazon Customer en 01-13-19
De: Jürgen Osterhammel, y otros
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Margaret Beaufort
- Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
- De: Elizabeth Norton
- Narrado por: Debra Burton
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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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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Awful Recording
- De Beck110118 en 09-10-17
De: Elizabeth Norton
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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
- De: Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
- Narrado por: Frasier Mackenzie
- Duración: 5 h y 5 m
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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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Thomas Cromwell
- The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
- De: Tracy Borman
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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Grounded in excellent primary source research, Thomas Cromwell gives an inside look at a monarchy that has captured the Western imagination for centuries....
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narration is very well done & book is quite good
- De horoscopy en 02-18-15
De: Tracy Borman
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Popes and Feminists
- How the Reformation Frees Women from Feminism
- De: Elise Crapuchettes
- Narrado por: Elise Crapuchettes
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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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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EXCELLENT BOOK.
- De Diana Jenkins en 01-09-21
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- De: Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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Master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography....
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The problem is with Cellini himself.
- De Leslie Ross en 06-07-10
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Francis I
- The Maker of Modern France
- De: Leonie Frieda
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement's exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. An aesthete, a diplomat par excellence....
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Rekindling salamandrine fires...
- De Adeliese Baumann en 09-29-18
De: Leonie Frieda
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Lives of the Artists, Volume One
- De: Giorgio Vasari
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 18 h y 15 m
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Georgio Vasari's original vision of the arts was to see the artist as divinely inspired....
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An encyclopedic “Garden of Delights”
- De Darwin8u en 07-12-14
De: Giorgio Vasari
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Vagabond Princess
- The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
- De: Ruby Lal
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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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.
De: Ruby Lal
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- De: Robert Goodwin
- Narrado por: Jeremy Clyde
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
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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....
De: Robert Goodwin
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Rebel in the Ranks
- Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
- De: Brad S. Gregory
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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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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Something to think about
- De Like Loehe en 09-19-17
De: Brad S. Gregory
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Elizabeth I and Her Circle
- De: Susan Doran
- Narrado por: Joanna Daniel
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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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....
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Very detailed and enjoyable
- De Sean en 09-12-15
De: Susan Doran
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The Teutonic Knights
- A Military History
- De: William Urban
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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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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Solid Medieval Work
- De Amazon Customer en 07-20-23
De: William Urban
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Elizabeth's London
- Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
- De: Liza Picard
- Narrado por: Liza Picard
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London....
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Hard to Follow Along
- De Makayla Mason en 08-27-18
De: Liza Picard
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Spanish Empire
- A History from Beginning to End
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Duración: 1 h y 7 m
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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....
De: Hourly History
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Defenders of the Faith
- Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536
- De: James Reston Jr.
- Narrado por: Jim Meskimen
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
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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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Good account of interesting period of history
- De ItalCali en 03-11-22
De: James Reston Jr.
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Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame
- Penguin Monarchs, Book 2
- De: John Guy
- Narrado por: John Banks
- Duración: 3 h y 25 m
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Henry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. In this revealing new account, John Guy explores how Henry himself understood the world and his place in it....
De: John Guy
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Unbelievers
- An Emotional History of Doubt
- De: Alec Ryrie
- Narrado por: Andy Creswell
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Why have societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? We think we know the answer, but in this lively and startlingly original reconsideration, Alec Ryrie argues that people embraced unbelief much as they have always chosen their worldviews: through their hearts more than their minds....
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important and neglected insight of atheism
- De John Glemby en 10-01-21
De: Alec Ryrie
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Mary Boleyn
- The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress
- De: Josephine Wilkinson
- Narrado por: Debra Burton
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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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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Clean biography of Mary Boleyn
- De Mary Elizabeth Reynolds en 04-07-14
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Shakespeare's Restless World
- De: Neil MacGregor
- Narrado por: Neil MacGregor
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
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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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Entertaining
- De PixelBrine en 08-14-12
De: Neil MacGregor
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All Things Made New
- The Reformation and Its Legacy
- De: Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Narrado por: Neil Scott-Barbour
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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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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did not like at all
- De AW en 03-07-22
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Edward VI
- England's Boy King
- De: B. R. Egginton
- Narrado por: Paul Draper
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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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....
De: B. R. Egginton
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God's Traitors
- Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England
- De: Jessie Childs
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
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Tracing the family's path from staunch loyalty to the Crown, to passive resistance and on to increasing activism, Childs illustrates the pressures and painful choices that confronted....
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Well-researched, well-written
- De Charles en 03-23-15
De: Jessie Childs