Europe In The Middle Ages by Ierne Lifford PLUNKET read by Steven Seitel Part 1/2 | Full Audio Book

Europe In The Middle Ages by Ierne Lifford PLUNKET (1885 - 1970)
Genre(s): Middle Ages/Middle History
Read by: Steven Seitel in English
Parts:
Part 2 • Europe In The Middle A...
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - 01 Preface, The Greatness of Rome
00:20:50 - 02 - 02 The Decline of Rome
00:49:55 - 03 - 03 The Dawn of Christianity
01:04:05 - 04 - 04 Constantine the Great
01:27:16 - 05 - 05 The Invasions of the Barbarians
02:08:02 - 06 - 06 The Rise of the Franks
02:34:52 - 07 - 07 Mahomet
03:05:07 - 08 - 08 Charlemagne
03:55:11 - 09 - 09 The Invasions of the Northmen
04:34:35 - 10 - 10 Feudalism and Monasticism
05:05:30 - 11 - 11 The Investiture Question
05:36:43 - 12 - 12 The Early Crusades
06:13:56 - 13 - 13 The Making of France
06:50:11 - 14 - 14 Empire and Papacy
Though sometimes called the 'Dark Ages', the period of Middle Ages is far from dull or uninteresting. In this book I. L. Plunket masterfully shows the colorfullness and diversity of the Middle Ages. Heroes like Charlemagne, Richard the Lion Hearted, Joan of Arc and many others come to life in these pages. The rich religious life of the Middle Ages, controversies between different secular and religious authorities and general rising of nations in Europe are disclosed to the reader. - Summary by Kikisaulite
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[@Scipio_Americano_III]

One of the best audiobooks I’ve ever listened to. Many thanks to the Narrator for reading with so much energy and precision.

[@stoogler180]

A+ on the narration. Couldn’t have been better. Thank you for taking the time to tell such an interesting history.

[@brandonjohnson7685]

I love the narrator's laughs at particularly humorous or ridiculous parts. It really puts it in perspective.

[@strykermoonfall2220]

Excellent audiobook content, excellent narration

[@kupus6622]

Thank you for the reading. I found your delivery excellent and paced just right to add enjoyment to a fascinating book

[@danionthego]

Wonderful reader. Thank you

[@robthomas592]

I wonder what you would think of Tom Sawyer being read by a brit? This voice seems totally incongruous to me.

[@DiggingNorway]

This is the best audio and narrator-voice I have ever heard in a lirbovox (or what ever they are called) recording

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

Digger Norge og :)

[@juliec4985]

Try Cori Samuel’s contributions. She’s excellent.

[@spaceytracey1237]

Algy Pugg is always a good un too.

[@tobe1207]

I like Lily Driver or whatever

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

What a gift. Thank you.

[@guyeshel9316]

Great reading

[@lisawilliams7836]

What a lovely voice, Thank You Very Much 😊💖

[@celebrityinterviews3691]

great book, great description of Rome's decline. looking forward to the transition into the middle ages.

[@radagast7200]

I've heard that King Arthur's supposed real life counterpart, Owen, was actually one of the last vestiges of Roman civilization and that Merlin was actually a man named Ambrosius Aurelius who went native druid for a while. Fun story, even if it's not entirely true. I want to say it was from Graham Phillips.

[@celebrityinterviews3691]

@@radagast7200 Good note. Will look into.

[@majcorbin]

Your audio books have become a COVID side effect addiction for me [suggestion] add the middle ages German (Mark Twain) [Wolfram Von Eschenbach][Tristan & Isolde]

[@goshmargo]

Just a thank you for this. Really enjoying your reading.

[@deejaybundst1671]

Steven Seitel must know more about history than anyone else on earth!!!

[@juanfervalencia]

Delightful, despite the sporadic inacuracies of the book.

[@cynthiarowley719]

That map gets my attention every time I see it! Thanks

[@pxp175]

Yes, it's upside-down 🙃

[@jmalko9152]

Cool audiobook

[@j4m32hz6]

Very cool

[@mrpieceofwork]

The description of the failing Roman Empire at the beginning sounds uncannily familiar to today's world...

[@dankthrone6668]

Human progress is not an unbroken incline

[@kathleenmckenzie6261]

History is cyclical. We never learn from our past. Empires rise and fall; democracies in particular don't last much beyond 200 years. Cheerful outlook, isn't it?!

[@davemojarra2666]

Nothing new under the Sun.

[@yungsouichi2317]

40 IQ

[@matthewkashnig3061]

Well it takes generations, empires don't just fall overnight. Ours will be quick though since nobody cares to put funding into hardening the grid against solar space weather.

[@pxp175]

Why is "corn" referenced here as in "corn and grain of Russia" 1:20:50? Isn't that a crop from America?

[@GalloPazzesco]

The first two Chapters alone are a lesson in failure being repeated by the U.S. today almost verbatim. What an incredibly prophetic read .... or in this case, listen.

[@bobbybooshay8641]

Hilarious! You envious 3rd worlders write the funniest comments.

[@jimtaggert42]

try 'the grachii, marius, and sulla' also by librivox

[@NotLazySelectivelyMotivated]

Not prophetic, just history repeating itself.

[@clarino2]

…and two years after your comment, things are worse. We have congressional representatives who openly advocate for a terrorist group and a President who intends to fund those same terrorists.

[@Skriggler]

As a seriously disappointed American the first 2 chapters honestly kinda spooked me when I realized what was going on

[@musikSkool]

I suppose this is common knowledge to University graduates. I would simplify this into a college course "The reasons for every government of Europe."

[@aisforamerica2185]

4:34:35 Feudalism & Monasticism 7:17:40 Frederick II

[@taipo101]

Why is the map upside down or am I missing summut?

[@LetsFindOut1]

1:50:47 lol at the reader laughing at that. it pays to stay behind the scenes sometimes

[@2Hot2]

I think it's great that he's genuinely interested, much better than that one girl who reads absolutely everything like a sing-song laundry list that makes you wonder what she's really up to when she's pretending to read.

[@mequanintabebe6239]

@@2Hot2 ፍግ

[@mayoluck]

I know this guy, he is good ppl 🤙

[@Eris123451]

@@mequanintabebe6239 ፍግ, is animal waste mixed with soil to make it fertile, dung, compost, manure.

[@jisteve9532]

Subtitles please! For the deaf and immigrants

[@Kiaorafranz]

The ancient map used as the front page, is upside down. By any reason, accidentally ?

[@Kiaorafranz]

Vielen Dank, Herr "von" Hagenau. :-)

[@robthomas592]

Austrailians think south is the top!!!

[@Historian212]

While a good intro overall, listeners should understand that some of the info and opinion in this book are very outdated, and they should follow up with a recent work to get correctives to it.

[@cynthiarowley719]

Date of publication?

[@Luxington1]

1926

[@HowNotToDoStuff]

1:50:52 nice giggle 7:01:50 cute snicker

[@spartacusmills3569]

Erm, that narrator is Charlie Sheen, with his amigos Jack Daniels and Hermana Coca!! 😂👏

[@stevenyoung3752]

1:07:53

[@jessie316942]

Sounds like Jeff Bridges

[@mayoluck]

When your so high you think your gona sit threw this in one sitting (it's 3am ATM)

[@robertlewis7208]

History with all it's volumes vast hath but one page

[@bilindalaw-morley161]

1:51

[@micheleramos4861]

The person reading this sounds exactly like Rick Steves🤔🧐

[@kayleesykes2739]

I agree!

[@neilchetwood4625]

Who’s that?

[@kayleesykes2739]

@@neilchetwood4625 he does a show called “rick Steve’s Europe” and yours different countries not sure if that’s your thing but I love watching it even just to relax :D

[@jessie316942]

I think he sounds exactly like"the Dude"

[@leahcimolrac1477]

@@jessie316942 “The Dude” as in the main character from The Big Lebowski? I don’t think so at all. I’d like to hear him narrate a book, though.

[@fattmouth7715]

Sounds like America today

[@Scipio_Americano_III]

I was thinking the exact same thing when I first started listening to this audiobook. Soon Our Country will also decline due to corruption and poverty.

[@Charmagh110]

26:00

[@unit4039]

3:50:00

[@AnthonyL0401]

5:15:30 5:53:00 6:00:00

[@dreamdiction]

Wrong.

[@jimtaggert42]

@@dreamdiction lol

[@santiagoprado7311]

4:04:26

[@saltycreole2673]

Constantine wanted to be Jesus incarnate and worshiped as a God. Tacitus helped him partially achieve that goal through adept historical revisionism.

[@gary6754]

false.. it's well documented the early Christians way before constantine viewed Jesus as the Son of God. not spreading falsehoods

[@colebeaubouef7692]

19:35 corn in Europe? 2000 years ago? Come on folks....smdh

[@lonestarbellepk]

Corn in Europe means wheat, buckwheat, rye or any grain not American "corn" (maize)

[@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733]

Yeah cause we never eat bread 🍞

[@dreamdiction]

Americans think the corn in biblical ancient Israel was imported from America, smdh.

[@kirkcinnamon8467]

​@@dreamdictionsmdh

[@reppepper]

Yorkshire is pronounced Yorksher.

[@ignacioperandres]

Jop

[@marastuff9256]

This ist depressiv; does he describe Rome or the US?

[@thomasdonovan3580]

I see many Romes in USA.

[@donaldedward4951]

I have read previously about the prophet and the first years of his religion. This version is much the same. I do not understand why anybody would be a votary of it. The violence and cruelty of the beginnings of this religion are obvious and so obviously against the essential teachings of Judaism and Christianity even though there's little difference between the three in the later years. The account of paradise is so obviously fictitious and against reason that is is laughable. Only simple minded people of very limited education and understanding would want to be associated.

[@soraiya2065]

If you haven't read Sapiens, it gives you a lot of insight on the role of global religions in the "development" of civilisation. Highly recommended reading.

[@he110w0rld8]

The Quran is a far more ethical book than the Bible. You have nothing remotely morally abhorrent as, to give only one example, this passage from the Psalms: "happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks". Anyone claiming the moral high ground when they have passages as the aforementioned in their holy book is the true simpleton

[@FoohMaxAgility]

@@he110w0rld8 And to think, we have pastors handing out bibles to dangerous criminals in prison, and to every child they can get their hands on, as a way to improve their character? Descriiptions of that jealous, wrathful, vicious Jehovah, who chose some people over all the rest of humanity, then killed them all off several times, commanded "his people" to rape, pillage and plunder as a prize. who called on Abraham to sacrifice his son as proof of his loyalty, then finally killed off his own son, then a church that twists all that into an ideal of love and altruism -- is utterly insane. I don't buy the myth that all these stories are mere analogies of how humanity is made and how best to overcome our weaknesses. How so many people can fall for this crap, I can't figure. Let's hope America WAS NOT fashioned on Judeo-Christian ethics. All we really need to teach is golden rule and the rest flows from that.

[@nerdvana101]

Proof you tube is rubbish

[@macawism]

A quaint and dated interpretation

[@evilswissy]

2:29:20