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  • Spice cover art

    • Spice

    • The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • The story of the 16th-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.

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    • Rebel in the Ranks

    • Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
    • By: Brad S. Gregory
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this compelling, illuminating, and expansive religious history that examines the complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther....

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    • Heretics and Believers

    • A History of the English Reformation
    • By: Peter Marshall
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 35 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

    • Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history argues that 16th-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of "reform" in various competing guises....

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    • Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame

    • Penguin Monarchs, Book 2
    • By: John Guy
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Series: Penguin Monarchs
    • Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • Henry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. In this revealing new account, John Guy explores how Henry himself understood the world and his place in it....

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    • All Things Made New

    • The Reformation and Its Legacy
    • By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
    • Narrated by: Neil Scott-Barbour
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • The most profound characteristic of Western Europe in the Middle Ages was its cultural and religious unity, a unity secured by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome....

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    • Martin Luther

    • The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
    • By: Eric Metaxas
    • Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • From author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation....

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    • Emperor

    • A New Life of Charles V
    • By: Geoffrey Parker
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings

    • The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers....

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    • Elizabeth I and Her Circle

    • By: Susan Doran
    • Narrated by: Joanna Daniel
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life....

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    • The Teutonic Knights

    • A Military History
    • By: William Urban
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 22-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. 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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    • Elizabeth's London

    • Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
    • By: Liza Picard
    • Narrated by: Liza Picard
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London....

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    • The Lazy Historian's Guide to the Wives of Henry VIII

    • By: Jillianne Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • This audiobook combines Jillianne Hamilton's sassy, fun, and snarky storytelling with one of history's most alluring eras. Focusing on the lives of the wives, this audiobook gives the six unfortunate queens the biography for which they almost certainly wouldn't have asked....

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    • Shakespeare's Restless World

    • By: Neil MacGregor
    • Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • What was life like for Shakespeare's first audiences? In this fascinating series, Neil MacGregor attempts to answer these questions by examining 20 objects from that turbulent period....

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    • Redeeming 'The Prince'

    • The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece
    • By: Maurizio Viroli
    • Narrated by: Chris Kayser
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Overturning popular misconceptions and challenging scholarly consensus, Maurizio Viroli provides a fresh introduction to Machiavelli's The Prince....

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    • The Children of Henry VIII

    • By: John Guy
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and perpetuating his dynasty....

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    • England in the Age of Shakespeare

    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Simon Barber
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 29-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard’s era....

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    • The Return of Martin Guerre

    • By: Natalie Zemon Davis
    • Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

    • The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre....

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    • Imprudent King

    • A New Life of Philip II
    • By: Geoffrey Parker
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings

    • Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I....

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    • God's Shadow

    • Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
    • By: Alan Mikhail
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the 16th century, the Ottomans controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power....

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