Record details

• ISBN: 9781598037074
• ISBN: 1598037072
• Physical Description: 18 sound discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (vi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.).
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2010]

Content descriptions

General Note:

In three containers (19 cm.).

Compact discs.

Formatted Contents Note:

Disc 1. From Britannia to Britain ; Roman Britain and the origins of King Arthur -- Disc 2. The early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms ; The conversion of the Anglo-Saxons -- Disc 3. Work and faith in Anglo-Saxon England ; The Viking invasions -- Disc 4. Alfred the Great ; The government of Anglo-Saxon England -- Disc 5. The golden age of the Anglo-Saxons ; The second Viking conquest -- Disc 6. The Norman conquest ; The reign of William the Conqueror -- Disc 7. Conflict and assimilation ; Henry I, the lion of justice -- Disc 8. The anarchy of Stephen's reign ; Henry II, law and order -- Disc 9. Henry II, the expansion of empire ; Courtly love -- Disc 10. Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade ; King John and the Magna Carta -- Disc 11. Daily life in the 13th century ; The disastrous reign of Henry III -- Disc 12. The conquests of Edward I ; Edward II, defeat and deposition -- Disc 13. Edward III and the Hundred Years' War ; The flowering of chivalry -- Disc 14. The Black Death ; The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 -- Disc 15. Chaucer and rise of English ; The deposition of Richard II -- Disc 16. Daily life in the 15th century ; Henry V and the victory at Agincourt -- Disc 17. Henry VI, defeat and division ; The Wars of the Roses -- Disc 18. Richard III, betrayal and defeat ; England in 1485.

Participant or Performer Note:

Professor Jennifer Paxton, Georgetown University.

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Subject:

Great Britain > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
Great Britain > History > Medieval period, 1066-1485.
Great Britain > Civilization > 1066-1485.
Great Britain > Civilization.

Genre:

Audiobooks.

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