Medieval

Life in a Mediaeval City

by Edwin Benson Read by Peter Yearsley 4.7
A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, p…

The Thirteenth

by James Joseph Walsh Read by Phil Chenevert 4.7
It cannot but seem a paradox to say that the Thirteenth was the greatest of centuries. To most people the idea will appear at once so prepos…

A Short History of Mediaeval Italy

by Oscar Browning Read by Pamela Nagami 4.7
The High Middle Ages in Italy, 1250-1409, were a time of incessant strife between rival city-states, some the Ghibelline allies of the Holy …

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times

by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times offers a sweeping narrative of France's rich and complex past, crafted by the esteemed h…

Tristan and Iseult

by Joseph Bédier Read by Joy Chan 4.7
This is the Arthurian legend of Tristan and Iseult. It is a tale of love, honour, intrigue, betrayal and jealousy, ending ultimately in trag…

England In The Middle Ages

by Elizabeth O'Neill Read by KevinS 3.8
A short study examining the historical framework of England from the period of the Norman Conquest to the end of the fifteenth century.The p…

The Rise of the Saracens and the Foundation of the Western Empire

by P. A. Connolly Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The present work is intended as a comprehensive account of medieval times, drawn up on the same lines as The Cambridge Modern History but wi…

Medieval Contributions to Modern Civilisation

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The mediaeval contributions to modern civilisation, which are the theme of this book, are twofold.There is the contribution of the idealised…

The Story of Coventry

by Mary Dormer Harris Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Nowadays best known for its bombing in WWII, the English city of Coventry was founded in the early Middle Ages. Earl Leofric and his wife La…

Fountains Abbey

by George Hodges Read by Patrick Randall 4.9
The story of Fountains Abbey, one of England's most famous medieval monasteries, from its foundation in the twelfth century to its suppressi…

Formation des grands états

by Alfred Nicolas Rambaud Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Ouvrage collectif sous la direction d'Ernest Lavisse et Alfred Rambaud. Le troisième volume de la série raconte la fin du Moye…

Dialogo delle lingue

by Sperone Speroni Read by Riccardo Fasol 4.4
Pubblicato nel 1542, questo dialogo espone le teorie sulla lingua italiana che, già dal secolo precedente, presero forma, cercando di…