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Byzantine Empire
Middle Ages/Middle History
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Edward Foord - Byzantine Empire

A concise and comprehensive guide to the Byzantine empire from Constantine to its dissolution. Foord explores in an accessible manner why it was important to history, the significance of noteworthy events, and how it...
Beth Thomas and 6 more 14 hours 32 minutes
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England In The Middle Ages
Middle Ages/Middle History
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Elizabeth O'Neill - England In The Middle Ages

A short study examining the historical framework of England from the period of the Norman Conquest to the end of the fifteenth century. The period from the Norman Conquest to the end of the fifteenth century may be...
KevinS 3 hours 12 minutes
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Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death
Biography & Autobiography
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Margaret O. Oliphant - Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death

The story of Jeanne d'Arc, or Joan of Arc, has passed into folklore and has been retold by many. The young teenager was sent by an as-yet uncrowned Charles VII of France to relieve Orleans from siege during the 100...
Ellaqyint and 3 more 10 hours 48 minutes
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Short Description of Torre Abbey
Art, Design & Architecture
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Hugh Robert Watkin - Short Description of Torre Abbey

Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the time of Henry VIII, a significant part of the buildings of Torre Abbey, particularly the church area, lay in ruins. Then, during the 17th century and...
Garth Burton 1 hour 39 minutes
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History of Britain
Antiquity
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John Milton - History of Britain

A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE and of THE MORTE D'ARTHUR, for Milton employs a style that might be called...
Thomas A. Copeland 11 hours 58 minutes
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Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II Emperor of the Romans King of Sicily and Jerusalem 1194-1250
War & Military
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Lionel Allshorn - Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II Emperor of the Romans King of Sicily and Jerusalem 1194-1250

Frederick II (1194-1250), under whose reign the Holy Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, was called by his contemporaries «Stupor Mundi,» the «astonishment of the world.» Frequently at war with the...
Pamela Nagami 8 hours 13 minutes
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Hildebrand and his Times
War & Military
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William Richard Ward Stephens - Hildebrand and his Times

W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-1085), afterwards Pope Gregory VII, setting his life within the larger...
Pamela Nagami 5 hours 54 minutes
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Vikings
Middle Ages/Middle History
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Allen Mawer - Vikings

This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University of Durham: late Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. It includes...
Kevin Johnson 4 hours
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Moors in Spain
Middle Ages/Middle History
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Stanley Lane-Poole - Moors in Spain

“The history of Spain offers us a melancholy contrast. Twelve hundred years ago, Tarik the Moor added the land of the Visigoths to the long catalogue of kingdoms subdued by the Moslems. For nearly eight centuries,...
S S Kim 7 hours 10 minutes
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Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273
War & Military
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Beatrice A. Lees - Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273

Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of «a heroic period, the age of feudalism and monasticism, of chivalry and the Crusades.» The era opened «with gloomy...
Pamela Nagami 8 hours 18 minutes
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King and Baronage (A.D. 1135-1327)
War & Military
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William Holden Hutton - King and Baronage (A.D. 1135-1327)

William Holden Hutton (1860-1930) was a British historian and Dean of Winchester Cathedral. In this slim volume, Hutton writes of the long period of feudal anarchy following the death of King Henry I in 1135, during...
Pamela Nagami 3 hours 58 minutes
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End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453
War & Military
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Eleanor Constance Lodge - End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453

Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short survey, the 180 years between 1273 and 1453 are characterized as a period of...
Pamela Nagami 8 hours 43 minutes
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Stolen Bacillus and other stories
Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells
Eight Keys to Eden
Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake
Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916
Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916
Short Story Collection Vol. 081
Short Story Collection Vol. 081
Around the World with the Children
Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter
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