Tag: Ages

The Late Middle Ages [TTC Audio]


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English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTO415O | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 22m | 347 MB
Lecturer: Philip Daileader
The Late Middle Ages – the two centuries from c. 1300 to c. 1500 – might seem like a distant era, but students of history are still trying to reach a consensus about how it should be interpreted. Was it an era of calamity or rebirth? Was it still clearly medieval or the period in which humanity took its first decisive steps into modernity?

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The High Middle Ages [TTC Audio]


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English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTNY8LW | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 32m | 344 MB
Lecturer: Philip Daileader
At the dawn of the last millennium in the year 1000, Europe was one of the world’s more stagnant regions – an economically undeveloped, intellectually derivative, and geopolitically passive backwater, with illiteracy, starvation, and disease the norm for almost everyone.

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The Early Middle Ages [TTC Audio]


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English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTO4VCM | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 31m | 366 MB
Lecturer: Philip Daileader
The Early Middle Ages – the years from A.D. 650 to 1000 – were crucial to Europe’s future social and political development. These 24 lectures trace a journey from Scandinavia across northern and central Europe to the farthest reaches of the Byzantine and Islamic empires, providing an exciting new look an era often simply called the "Dark Ages."

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Dark Ages The Case for a Science of Human Behavior


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English | 2006 | ISBN: 0262134691 | 176 Pages | PDF | 338.5 KB
Why the prejudice against adopting a scientific attitude in the social sciences is creating a new ‘Dark Ages’ and preventing us from solving the perennial problems of crime, war, and poverty.

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The Waxing of the Middle Ages


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1644532913 | 291 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB
Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the , first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. Many studies, particularly literary studies, have challenged Huizinga’s perceptions of individual works or genres. Still, the vision of the Late French and Burgundian Middle Ages as a sad transitional phase between the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance persists. Yet, a series of exceptionally significant cultural developments mark the period.

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The Central Middle Ages (Short Oxford History of Europe)


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English | December 24, 2005 | ISBN: 0199253129, 0199253110 | True EPUB/PDF | 304 pages | 3.98/4.2 MB
The period from the late tenth to the early fourteenth centuries was one of the most dynamic in European history. Latin Christendom found a new confidence which has left its mark upon the landscape in the form of the great cathedrals and castles, while thousands of new towns and villages were founded. The continent was carved up into dynastic kingdoms and principalities from which the European state system would evolve. An age of great religious enthusiasm, it developed a darker side in the form of the Crusades and the persecution of heretics and Jews.

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The Fires of Lust Sex in the Middle Ages [Audiobook]


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English | December 31, 2021 | ASIN: B09P1ZC3WL | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 8m | 329 MB
Author: Katherine Harvey | Narrator: Corrie James
An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people.
The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much – or too little – sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about who they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong.

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