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    • By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
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    • Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is the Holy Grail a cup, or something else altogether? Did Europeans really burn millions of people at the stake for witchcraft? These are just a few of the questions you will explore with the help of medieval scholar Dorsey Armstrong....

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    • By: Saint Augustine
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace....

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    • An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times
    • By: Rosalie Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Cat Gould
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Inside The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women, a fascinating book about life during medieval times, you will discover tantalizing true stories about medieval women and a myriad of historical facts....

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    • The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
    • By: Joel L. Kraemer
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • This first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver....

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    • Constellation Mythology of the Greeks
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • The stars and constellations are among the few remaining objects that appear to us just as they appeared to our distant ancestors. This nonfiction narrative presents the tales of the 48 classical constellations, compiled from literature spanning a thousand years....

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    • The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
    • By: Cullen Murphy
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • The Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826-the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy....

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    • The Women of the Viking World
    • By: Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
    • Narrated by: Ann Richardson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some, but guide spears, arrows, and sword blades into the bodies of others. Viking myths about valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war....

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    • A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
    • By: Janina Ramirez
    • Narrated by: Janina Ramirez
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • The Middle Ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings; a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the “Dark” Ages were anything but....

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    • The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
    • By: Dan Jones
    • Narrated by: Dan Jones
    • Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 723 ratings
    • A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Templars....

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    • The Greek Myths Reimagined
    • By: Stephen Fry
    • Narrated by: Stephen Fry
    • Series: Mythos, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,095 ratings
    • In this brilliant conclusion to his best-selling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War....

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    • Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
    • By: S. Frederick Starr
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 504 ratings
    • Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise....

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    • The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
    • By: Hetta Howes
    • Narrated by: Amy Noble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-25
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • An invaluable reassessment of what we think we know about the daily lives of women in medieval Europe.

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    • Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
    • By: Eleanor Janega
    • Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior....

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    • A New History
    • By: Jonathan Ray
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Jewish Life in Medieval Spain is a detailed exploration of the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of 1492.

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    • Beholding Christ with the Artists, Mystics, and Theologians of the Middle Ages
    • By: Grace Hamman, Beth Allison Barr
    • Narrated by: Grace Hamman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Jesus through Medieval Eyes will take you on an exploration of medieval representations of Jesus in theology and literature.

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    • By: John D. Smith - translator
    • Narrated by: Shaheen Khan, Sagar Arya
    • Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent and is a major text of Hinduism....

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    • A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered
    • By: Turtle Bunbury
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Ireland is approximately the size of the state of Indiana, yet this small country boasts an extensive, rich, and fascinating history. Ireland's Forgotten Past is an alternative history that covers 13,000 years in 36 stories that are often left out of history books....

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    • The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England
    • By: Eleanor Parker
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England – so what happened to the children this conflict left behind....

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