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September 27, 2023

The Story of Medieval England From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest

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Free Download The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest by Jennifer Paxton, The Great Courses
English | 2013 | ISBN: B00DTO6ADA | Format: M4B / 19 hours and 7 minutes + PDF | 527 Mb
These 36 lectures tell the remarkable story of a tumultuous thousand-year period in the history of England. Dominated by war, conquest, and the struggle to balance the stability brought by royal power with the rights of the governed, it was a period that put into place the foundation of much of the world we know today. As you journey through this largely chronological narrative – occasionally interrupted for lecture-long explorations of specific topics – you’ll see key themes emerge, including the assimilation of successive waves of invaders, the tense relationship between kings and the nobility, and the constant battles over money and taxation. And because so much of history is driven by specific individuals and not just historical circumstance, each lecture is rich in intimate portraits that reveal those individuals at the key moments of their historical destiny, including Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and John Wycliffe.The result is a lecture series that winds up being not only informative but deeply entertaining, with each lecture drawing you in with its own particular fascinations, including a probing look at the scope of the Black Death, a realistic examination of the legends of both King Arthur and Robin Hood, a riveting description of the Battle of Bosworth Field, and a discussion of the surprisingly nuanced penalties of the early Germanic law codes.
These lectures consistently deliver a fresh level of understanding about medieval England, its rulers and subjects, and their significance for the world we live in today. The chain of theme and event that links our world to theirs will never be clearer, rewarding every moment you spend with this series.

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September 27, 2023

Sex, Love, and Marriage from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

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Free Download Sex, Love, and Marriage from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment by Jennifer McNabb, The Great Courses, Audible Originals
English | 2021 | ISBN: B09CQBX7P1 | 4 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 134 Mb
There is a common misconception that sex, love, and marriage in medieval and early modern Europe followed very specific, inflexible rules and expectations that remained unchanged for centuries. But the boundaries of matrimony, sexuality, and romantic relationships have always been complicated, and the rules surrounding them are forever changing.
Throughout the 10 lectures of Sex, Love, and Marriage from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, you will find that looking closer at marriage and sexuality in this period reveals a vibrant history of flexibility, of questioning and adaptation, and of evolutionary – and sometimes even revolutionary – change. With Professor Jennifer McNabb, you will explore these crucial aspects of the human experience as they were formed and transformed in the centuries that stretched between the Roman adoption of Christianity and the emergence of the Enlightenment. Along with the more traditional aspects of sex and marriage, you will also examine:The Christian church’s complex relationship with sex and celibacyThe experience of the unmarried or formerly married in a marriage-driven societyProstitution and commercialized sexThe realities vs. the fiction of forbidden love and unrecognized unionsThe rise of companionate marriageHow the Protestant Reformation altered the sexual and matrimonial landscapeAnd more

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September 27, 2023

Just a Kid from Swampoodle to Vietnam

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Free Download Just a Kid from Swampoodle to Vietnam by Edmond Cubbage, Charles Conover
English | 2023 | ISBN: B0C4M88P39 | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 3 hours and 59 minutes | 217 Mb
A collection of short stories of people and events about my time in the service, and the year serving my country in Vietnam.

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September 27, 2023

Index, a History of The A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

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Free Download Index, a History of The: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan, Neil Gardner, Tantor Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09RN91F29 | 8 hours and 9 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 224 Mb
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book – it’s just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find "Butchers, to be avoided", or "Cows that shite Fire", or even catch "Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne". Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past.
Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of 13th-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the 21st, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the people we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists’ living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and-of course-indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart – and we have been for 800 years.

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