W. P. Melton
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Europe in the High Middle Ages
- De: William Chester Jordan
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
It was an age of hope and possibility, of accomplishment and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno, and Thomas Aquinas. Buoyant, confident, creative, the era seemed to be flowering into a true renaissance - until the disastrous 14th century rained catastrophe in the form of plagues, famine, and war. In Europe in the High Middle Ages, William Chester Jordan paints a vivid, teeming landscape that captures this lost age in all its glory and complexity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent history, incompetent narrator
- De Mr. Johnson en 02-01-20
- Europe in the High Middle Ages
- De: William Chester Jordan
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
Very straightforward overview
Revisado: 05-03-24
Medieval histories easily get sucked into long recitation of kings, all with similar sounding names. This has some of that but also provides plenty of high level overview on art, culture and the lives of everyday people during the Middle Ages.
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Alaric the Goth
- An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
- De: Douglas Boin
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 113
Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire. Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who destroyed "civilization," at least in the conventional story of Rome's collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, shockingly alive.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Can't finish it.
- De Stan K. Smith en 06-21-20
- Alaric the Goth
- An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
- De: Douglas Boin
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
Nice short book that tries to upend the story of Alaric
Revisado: 11-26-20
The title is a little misleading, the author admits there are very few contemporary accounts of Alaric and the Goths and all of them are biased towards the Romans. This book focuses more on describing the cultural and political atmosphere of the Roman Empire in the late 300s-early 400s AD. Specifically their attitudes toward and treatment of immigrant groups such as the Goths. The author makes some reasonable inferences about Alaric (he led raids from an early age and rose in the ranks of the Roman military which suggests he was a capable strategist and reasonably charismatic) but doesn’t go too far into speculation about his character.
I most enjoyed the way the author re-contextualized the popular perception of the Goths, they were not marauding, German raiders, but closer to wandering Romanian refugees. They were stuck in an untenable position between raiding tribes from the north and the powerful, exploitive and increasingly xenophobic Roman Empire to the South. Overall, a nice focused history on a subject I did not know much about prior to listening to this.
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