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Prizewinning historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues that these centuries were critical in the formulation of European identity. Far from being a middle period between more significant epochs, this age has much to tell us in its own right about the progress of culture and the development of political thought.
Sweeping in its breadth, Wickham's incisive history focuses on a world still profoundly shaped by Rome, which encompassed the remarkable Byzantine, Carolingian, and Ottonian empires, and peoples ranging from Goths, Franks, and Vandals to Arabs, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings.
Digging deep into each culture, Wickham constructs a vivid portrait of a vast and varied world stretching from Ireland to Constantinople, the Baltic to the Mediterranean. The Inheritance of Rome brilliantly presents a fresh understanding of the crucible in which Europe would ultimately be created.
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The Birth of Classical Europe
- A History from Troy to Augustine
- De: Simon Price, Peter Thonemann
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
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To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level, from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a “classical Europe,” using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new audio book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past - one filled with great leaders and writers....
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Excellent overview of the Classical World
- De David I. Williams en 01-12-14
De: Simon Price, y otros
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Medieval Europe
- De: Chris Wickham
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period - one not easily chronicled within a single book. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation.
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Wow! Outstanding Work on the Period
- De Dane Maralason en 01-15-19
De: Chris Wickham
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Julius Caesar
- De: Philip Freeman
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 14 h y 44 m
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More than 2,000 years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for "emperor" - not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia. He is best known as the general who defeated the Gauls and doubled the size of Rome's territories. But, as Philip Freeman describes in this fascinating new biography, Caesar was also a brilliant orator, an accomplished writer, a skilled politician, and much more.
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Not very good...
- De FarleyFarley en 10-22-19
De: Philip Freeman
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The Rise of Western Christendom (10th Anniversary Revised Edition)
- Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000
- De: Peter Brown
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 26 h y 48 m
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This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power.
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Must read for Western & Church history
- De ReviewAmazon384 en 12-08-23
De: Peter Brown
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The Ancient Celts, Second Edition
- De: Barry Cunliffe
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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For 2,500 years, the Celts have continued to fascinate those who have come into contact with them, yet their origins have remained a mystery and even today are the subject of heated debate among historians and archaeologists. Barry Cunliffe's classic study of the ancient Celtic world was first published in 1997. Since then, huge advances have taken place in our knowledge: new finds, new ways of using DNA records to understand Celtic origins, new ideas about the proto-urban nature of early chieftains' strongholds. All these developments are part of this fully updated edition.
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Missing the foundation and migration from the steppe and the Tuatha Dé Dannan
- De cpdb en 03-15-20
De: Barry Cunliffe
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The Impending Crisis
- America Before the Civil War: 1848-1861
- De: David M. Potter, Don E. Fehrenbacher
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 22 h y 41 m
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David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern secession.
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A Slog for Sure
- De Brux en 04-13-17
De: David M. Potter, y otros
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Ravenna
- Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
- De: Judith Herrin
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 19 h y 3 m
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At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics. For three centuries, the city attracted scholars, lawyers, craftsmen, and religious luminaries, becoming a true cultural and political capital.
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Worthy book, stingy production.
- De Stephen Chakwin en 12-13-20
De: Judith Herrin
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The Body Builders
- Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
- De: Adam Piore
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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For millennia humans have tried - and often failed - to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize mankind. In The Body Builders, Adam Piore takes us on a fascinating journey into the field of bioengineering and paints a vivid portrait of the people at its center.
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Facinating
- De Connor en 07-21-23
De: Adam Piore
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April 1945
- The Hinge of History
- De: Craig Shirley
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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Acclaimed historian and New York Times best-selling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged from World War II as a leading superpower.
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Amazing.
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-22
De: Craig Shirley
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Where Goodness Still Grows
- Reclaiming Virtue in an Age of Hypocrisy
- De: Amy Peterson, Lauren Winner - foreword
- Narrado por: Charity Spencer
- Duración: 5 h y 11 m
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Declining church attendance. A growing feeling of betrayal. For Christians who have begun to feel set adrift and disillusioned by their churches, Where Goodness Still Grows grounds us in a new view of virtue deeply rooted in a return to Jesus Christ’s life and ministry.
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Packs historical perspective and grace
- De Amazon Customer en 01-16-21
De: Amy Peterson, y otros
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
- A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
- De: Peter Heather
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 21 h y 43 m
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The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart.
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A New HIstory but not a better history
- De Mario en 03-28-14
De: Peter Heather
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Praetorian
- The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard
- De: Guy de la Bédoyère
- Narrado por: Malk Williams
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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Founded by Augustus around 27 BC, the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries unfolded, however, Praetorian soldiers served not only as protectors and enforcers but also as powerful political players. Fiercely loyal to some emperors, they vied with others and ruthlessly toppled those who displeased them, including Caligula, Nero, Pertinax, and many more. Guy de la Bédoyère provides a compelling first full narrative history of the Praetorians.
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- De Charles en 08-07-17
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The Dark Ages: 476-918
- De: Charles Oman
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 19 h y 30 m
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The Dark Ages is the story of the birth of Western civilization. It was a harrowing crucible of war, destruction, and faith. For over 100 years, Charles Oman's famous history has remained one of the finest sources for the study of this period. Covering a period of 500 years and an area stretching from Northern Germany to Egypt, this is the definitive history that will alter your conceptions of a period of history that gave birth to the civilization we live in today.
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An Excellent Production
- De Ken en 08-11-17
De: Charles Oman
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Born Under a Lucky Star
- A Red Army Soldier's Recollections of the Eastern Front of World War II
- De: Ivan Philippovich Makarov, Anastasia Walker - foreword and translator
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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As a Russian recruit in World War II, Ivan Makarov witnessed General Chuikov pull out his pistol and shoot their regimental commander as a traitor. That was on his first day at the front. Thrown into an open field to face German tanks and artillery fire, with only rifles and machine guns to defend themselves with, almost 2,000 men of his regiment were wiped out in only six days at the Eastern Front. At this rate, Ivan struggled to comprehend how he would survive the hundreds of battles that lay before him, with death seeming to be the only certainty.
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Great story horrible reading
- De Jarvin Nightwind en 08-26-23
De: Ivan Philippovich Makarov, y otros
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The Spy in Moscow Station
- A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
- De: Eric Haseltine
- Narrado por: Eric Haseltine
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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In the late 1970s, the National Security Agency still did not officially exist - those in the know referred to it dryly as the No Such Agency. So why, when NSA engineer Charles Gandy filed for a visa to visit Moscow, did the Russian Foreign Ministry assert with confidence that he was a spy? Outsmarting honey traps and encroaching deep enough into enemy territory to perform complicated technical investigations, Gandy accomplished his mission in Russia but discovered more than State and CIA wanted him to know.
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Dull Dull Dull
- De DVN en 09-02-19
De: Eric Haseltine
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Arabs
- A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
- De: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 25 h y 34 m
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This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia.
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Good book bad narration
- De Anonymous User en 09-18-19
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Blood, Fire & Gold
- The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici
- De: Estelle Paranque
- Narrado por: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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Sixteenth-century Europe was a hostile world dominated by court politics and patriarchal structures, and yet against all odds, two women rose to power: Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. One a young Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom alone, and the other a more experienced and clandestine leader who used her children to shape the dynasties of Europe, much has been written about these shrewd and strategic sovereigns. But though their individual legacies have been heavily scrutinized, nothing has been said of their complicated relationship.
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16th Century Feminists
- De Tommy en 01-23-23
De: Estelle Paranque
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Escape from Rome
- The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
- De: Walter Scheidel
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 21 h y 35 m
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The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world?
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Very interesting book, terrible narration
- De Matt Griffin en 12-03-19
De: Walter Scheidel
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A Magisterial Survey
Every so often, you read a work of history in which the author manages to combine breadth and depth sufficiently successfully that you're not sure whether you've read a survey or a detailed analysis. Chris Wickham's "The Inheritance of Rome" is one such book. Wickham covers a temporal span of 600 years and a geographic span from Iberia to Iran, and from Egypt to England. His basic thesis -- that the early Middle Ages were neither a complete break from the Roman world nor a seamless transition from it, but rather a sort of cracked mirror of the Western Empire, mimicking many of its aspects in smaller, more fragmented form -- is given enough support to see the theme across various times and places. At the same time, however, he is quick to point out circumstances where the data don't fit the mold, and to make clear that it is the mold, not the data, which must give way. Particularly interesting is his analysis of the later part of this period, where the effects of the collapse of Abbasid and, more particularly, Carolingian power in some ways recapitulated, in smaller form, the effects of Roman decline. A couple of nits: sometimes, Wickham's neo-Marxist lens seems too heavy handed. There are a few too many references to the exploitation of the peasants by the aristocrats; more significantly (given that such exploitation did in fact occur), it is not until the Conclusion that he really undertakes to explain *why* this might happened, rather than presenting it as a historical inevitability. Also, the initial parts of the book, covering the 5th, 6th, and 7th centuries, come across as rather fragmentary -- here they did this, there they did that -- but that is almost certainly a consequence of the equally fragmentary nature of the evidence. These are quibbles.
The narration, by James Cameron Stewart, is also excellent. His diction is clear, his pronunciations consistent (not an easy thing with so many places and names in so many languages). He conveys the sense of the text, as well as its content, something not all narrators do successfully. An amusing tic: Audiobooks are of course recorded in small sections. Stewart tends to speak both faster and at a rising pitch as a section goes on. When he picks up with what is obviously the next block of recording, the speed and pitch revert to baseline.
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- Diego Lira
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Great book
I really liked how comprehensive this book is. You see lots of different perspectives, with due care taken to not generalize nor use anachronisms (e. g. Not using modern sensibilities to judge social hierarchy of the period).
The bad side is that it assumes some previous knowledge: Any reader looking for an introduction to the period will feel a bit lost after the author casually mentions Charles the Bald, Ottonians, Basel II and many others more famous figures as if their context is known. Maybe that's true if you went to school in Europe - I doubt it's true elsewhere.
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- stephen
- 02-12-19
Dry facts read without feeling
Gave up after a couple hours because it was mostly a litany of names and places read in a purely informational tone. Disappointing because I'm fascinated by this time period.Maybe it gets better as it goes along.
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- Justin A. Kalman
- 06-16-21
Marvelous and Staggered
I say in preface that this volume is instrumental to and understanding of medieval Europe, and has filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge of the era. I’m extremely grateful to the author and glad for the read.
Be ready to adjust yourself to the broken cadence and style of the read. It can prove distracting, and breaks up the flow of information. You may require, as I did, several listens.
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- Lyle
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In depth well defended and well defined in terms of scale. Successful in what it set out to do.
This reader has a particularly choppy style which always makes the books he reads less of a fluid listen than say Derek Perkins. In particular with the plethora of names and locations his rhythm takes away from this book.
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- Lady Wesley
- 02-02-22
Read, don’t listen
This book is long and dense and rather dull, and the narrator’s almost total lack of inflection makes it even duller. Nevertheless, I learned a lot about the era formerly known as the Dark Ages, and so I liked it overall.
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- Jefferson Garner Kent
- 05-13-19
Good Story
Makes use of limited sources in creative ways to make up for a lack of primary sources and evidence in a period that is not well known.
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- James
- 11-08-22
Basically just kings and battles for 600 years
This is all style history writing that gives you very little information about what happens below the level of royalty and aristocracy. This guy never heard of heard of Braudel. It really got tedious, especially his obsession with telling the listener what year this or that emperor, king or other potentate died. Pretty boring history of just political behavior and nothing about social life, technology and what life was really like during this period, it really wasn’t the dark ages, but this book makes it seem like it was.
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- C. Hager
- 08-20-24
Detailed History of the Early Roman Centuries
The book is comprehensive but goes into almost too much detail about the period. The narrator is precise but is very pedantic in tenor and droning in his tone.
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- Timothy
- 07-20-18
Wonderful book by a talented writer and historian
This is a wonderful book by a talented writer and historian. As the title suggests, the continuity between Roman times and the early middle ages is an important theme in the work. The author blends secular and ecclesiastical history together in a way that never becomes tedious and provides insight into both the eastern and western inheritance of Rome and the post-Roman Islamic world. It never bogs down in political history and gives the reader a view of the social and cultural history of the period. The narration is great, 32hrs by any single narrator can get stale, but this one never does. Highly recommended
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