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The Turbulent Crown
- The Story of the Tudor Queens
- By: Roland Hui
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance29
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Ten remarkable women. One remarkable era. In the Tudor period, 1485 to 1603, a host of fascinating women sat on the English throne. The dramatic events of their lives are told in The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens.
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alas poor queens
- By knitter on 28-03-20
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The Turbulent Crown
- The Story of the Tudor Queens
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 21-08-18
- Language: English
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Young Queens
- The gripping, intertwined story of three queens, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
- By: Leah Redmond Chang
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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Story24
Bloomsbury presents Young Queens by Leah Redmond Chang, read by Olivia Dowd. LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORY The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots –...
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Richly informative but ruined by the performance
- By Carol on 01-06-23
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Young Queens
- The gripping, intertwined story of three queens, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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The Florentines
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance67
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Story67
A sweeping 400-year history of the Florentines who gave birth to the Renaissance, by the author of The Medici and The Borgias. Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which transformed the entire culture of western civilisation. Painting, sculpture...
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Interesting overview of key characters
- By M Turner on 26-10-21
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The Florentines
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-06-21
- Language: English
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The Prince
- By: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Prince is a timeless political treatise that explores how power is gained, maintained, and lost. Written in the early 16th century, Machiavelli offers sharp, practical guidance for rulers navigating unstable political landscapes. Drawing from historical examples and real-world observation, he examines leadership, strategy, diplomacy, and human nature—arguing that effectiveness often outweighs morality in matters of state. Provocative and influential, The Prince remains one of the most important works ever written on politics and power.
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Legendary author, novice reader
- By Anonymous on 22-04-26
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The Prince
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall124
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Performance111
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Story111
The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.
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Must read if you're interested in European history
- By Liam on 16-10-20
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-08-19
- Language: English
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The King's Painter
- The Life and Times of Hans Holbein
- By: Franny Moyle
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance20
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Story20
Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realised portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Anne of Cleves, Jane Seymour and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies he encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images, which have come to define our perception of the world of the Henrician court, Holbein was a protean and multi-faceted genius.
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Great history book
- By A. McLaren on 16-10-24
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The King's Painter
- The Life and Times of Hans Holbein
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-05-22
- Language: English
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Six Wives
- The Queens of Henry VIII
- By: David Starkey
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Abridged
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Overall125
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Performance79
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Story75
What makes a man marry six times? Was Henry VIII a voracious philanderer? On the contrary, says Dr David Starkey, the King was seeking happiness – as well as hoping for a son. The first of his wives was Catherine of Aragon, the pious Catholic princess who suffered years of miscarriages and...
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I now know a lot more!
- By Harold on 27-07-08
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Six Wives
- The Queens of Henry VIII
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 24-06-05
- Language: English
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2,000 Years of Christ's Power, Vol. 3
- Renaissance and Reformation
- By: Nick Needham
- Narrated by: Peter Matthess
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Volume Three of 2,000 Years of Christ's Power, in showing the progression of the Reformation era and the daring bravery of its figures, presents a period of history from which there are many lessons to be learnt—not least of all, the vibrancy of people's lives and the courage with which they faced death.
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Sadly biased and distorted
- By Simon A on 24-06-26
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2,000 Years of Christ's Power, Vol. 3
- Renaissance and Reformation
- Narrated by: Peter Matthess
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 09-08-23
- Language: English
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Elizabeth
- By: David Starkey, Kati Nicholl
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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Overall80
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Performance61
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Story60
A brilliant and compelling account of the apprentice years of Elizabeth I. An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man’s world, passionately sexual yet – she said – a virgin, Elizabeth I was to be famed as England’s most successful ruler. This absorbing new...
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Very enjoyable
- By Teebs on 23-06-16
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Elizabeth
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 24-06-05
- Language: English
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The Templar Revelation
- By: Lynn Pickett, Clive Prince
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 20 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance49
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Story48
In the course of their investigation into Leonardo da Vinci, Lynn Pickett and Clive Prince found clues about his strangely passionate belief in the importance of John the Baptist. Here, along with a reassessment of the significance of Mary Magdalene and the sacred feminine, the authors reveal that Da Vinci’s apparently peculiar religion was shared by the Knights Templar. And their profoundly heretical belief that the Baptist was superior to Jesus himself still has the power to pose a threat to the very foundations of the Christian Church….
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Is The Templar Revelation True or False Heresy?
- By Robert on 03-07-18
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The Templar Revelation
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 20 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-07-15
- Language: English
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All His Spies
- The Secret World of Robert Cecil
- By: Stephen Alford
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance33
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Story33
Brought to you by Penguin. From the acclaimed author of The Watchers, the untold story of Robert Cecil - the ultimate Tudor spy-master Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies...
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Interesting new viewpoint
- By Christine on 09-07-24
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All His Spies
- The Secret World of Robert Cecil
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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The Verge
- Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
- By: Patrick Wyman
- Narrated by: Patrick Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance73
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Story74
The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn. In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the...
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Accessible, quality history...
- By Jaki on 23-07-21
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The Verge
- Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
- Narrated by: Patrick Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 20-07-21
- Language: English
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Princes of the Renaissance
- By: Mary Hollingsworth
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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Story17
A history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most influential patrons. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of 15th- and 16th-century Italy immersed themselves in the culture of antiquity, commissioning palaces, villas and churches inspired by the architecture of ancient Rome, and offering patronage to artists and writers.
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Well written tremendously interesting
- By CDV on 21-04-24
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Princes of the Renaissance
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-02-21
- Language: English
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Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
- Get Political
- By: Peter Fryer
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 23 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of two thousand years of Black presence in Britain. First published in the 80s, amidst race riots and police brutality, Fryer's history performed a deeply political act; revealing how Africans, Asians and their descendants had long been erased from British history.
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Couldn’t get into this.
- By Ooze Ung on 04-04-26
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Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
- Get Political
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 23 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 17-10-24
- Language: English
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Catherine de' Medici
- The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
- By: Mary Hollingsworth
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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Bloomsbury presents Catherine de' Medici by Mary Hollingsworth, read by Sophie Hunter and Rachel Bavidge. A new biography of Catherine de' Medici, the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe, whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and times of a remarkable –...
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If I were you buy the one by Leonie Freida
- By MABS on 01-01-25
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Catherine de' Medici
- The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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Inventing the Renaissance
- Myths of a Golden Age
- By: Ada Palmer
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Bloomsbury presents Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer, read by Candida Gubbins. The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge...
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Baffling narrative style
- By Christine on 26-03-25
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Inventing the Renaissance
- Myths of a Golden Age
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
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The Teutonic Knights
- A Military History
- By: William Urban
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning, and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and Northern Germany and established a formidable regime that flourished across Central Europe for 300 years. 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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The Teutonic Knights
- A Military History
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 22-08-22
- Language: English
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Henrietta Maria
- Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
- By: Leanda de Lisle
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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Henrietta Maria is the most reviled consort to have worn the crown of Britain's Three Kingdoms. Condemned as that 'Popish brat of France', a 'notorious whore' and traitor, she remains in popular memory the wife who wore the breeches and turned her husband Catholic—so causing a civil war—and a cruel and bigoted mother. Leanda de Lisle's White King was hailed as 'the definitive modern biography about Charles I' (Observer). Here she considers Henrietta Maria's point of view, unpicking the myths to reveal a very different queen.
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excellent thanks
- By Becky Marlow on 29-11-22
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Henrietta Maria
- Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- By: Jacob Burckhardt
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance16
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In this landmark study of Italy from the 14th through the early 16th centuries, Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt chronicles the rise of Florence and Venice as powerful city-states, the breakup of the medieval worldview that came with the rediscovery of Greek and Roman culture, and the new emphasis on the role of the individual. All these, Burckhardt explains, went hand in hand with the explorations of science and the more naturalistic depiction of the world in art and literature.
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The Cultural Life Of The Italian Renaissance
- By Stephen Gott on 21-07-20
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 08-11-06
- Language: English
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Useful Enemies
- Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
- By: Noel Malcolm
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance15
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From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 18th century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. In this path-breaking audiobook, Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction, studying all the ways in which thinkers in the West interpreted the Ottoman Empire as a political phenomenon - and Islam as a political religion.
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BORING
- By J. Wexler on 24-01-22
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Useful Enemies
- Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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