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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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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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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