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Medieval

Original recaps from Medieval, each a clear set of key moments and ideas you can read or listen to in about 15 minutes.

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EVENTFrance and England

1337 to 1453

The Hundred Years War

France and England

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7 minAudioMedieval

BOOKMedieval

The Inheritance of Rome

by Chris Wickham

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7 minAudioMedieval

EVENTEngland and Normandy

1066

The Norman Conquest of England

England and Normandy

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7 minAudioMedieval

BOOKMedieval

A Distant Mirror

by Barbara W. Tuchman

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7 minAudioMedieval

EVENTScandinavia, the North Atlantic, and Eastern Europe

793 to 1066

The Viking Age

Scandinavia, the North Atlantic, and Eastern Europe

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8 minAudioMedieval

EVENTEurope and the Levant

1095 to 1099

The First Crusade

Europe and the Levant

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7 minAudioMedieval

EVENTFrancia

732

The Battle of Tours

Francia

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7 minAudioMedieval

EVENTIberian Peninsula

711 to 1492

The Reconquista

Iberian Peninsula

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8 minAudioMedieval

EVENTRome and Constantinople

1054

The Great Schism of 1054

Rome and Constantinople

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7 minAudioMedieval

EVENTIraq and the wider Islamic world

c. 750 to 1258

The Golden Age of Baghdad

Iraq and the wider Islamic world

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7 minAudioMedieval

BOOKMedieval

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

by Ian Mortimer

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7 minAudioMedieval

EVENTEurope, North Africa, and the Near East

1347 to 1351

The Black Death in Europe

Europe, North Africa, and the Near East

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8 minAudioMedieval

EVENTEngland

1215

The Sealing of Magna Carta

England

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4 minAudioMedieval

EVENTEastern Mediterranean

1453

The Fall of Constantinople

Eastern Mediterranean

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4 minAudioMedieval