El Cid
The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary
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Nora Berend
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Exploring the creation of the El Cid legend over the centuries, this masterful and evocative biography peels away the layers of myth to reveal the real-life historical figure.
El Cid was perhaps the most famous warrior involved in the indiscriminate fighting—irrespective of religion—on the Iberian Peninsula during the eleventh century.
In the centuries after his death, he was transformed into a perfect Christian knight. In modernity, he was seen as the incarnation of Spain’s special national character—Franco chose El Cid as the emblem of Nationalist Spain. Yet not only those on the political right, but many others, including academics and those on the political left, were in his thrall. He has been promoted both as the forerunner of white supremacists and of multiculturalism.
How can we explain such a stupendous afterlife, and how can El Cid be a hero for so many different people? To begin to understand that we must try to understand the truth buried beneath the myth.
Nora Berend explores the creation of the legends over the centuries and reveals those active in its making. Medieval monks, the women in El Cid’s family, a playwright, and a historian are among the creators of the mythic Cid. This riveting narrative seeks to explain their motives, and in so doing peels away the layers of legend to evoke the real-life historical figure.
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During the 1600s—between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment—Europe lived through an era known as The Age of Reason. By exploring all the key events and bringing to life some of the most influential characters of the era—including Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Newton, Descartes, Spinoza, Louis XIV, and Charles I—acclaimed historian Paul Strathern tells the vivid story of this paradoxical age, while also exploring the painful cost of creating the progress and modernity upon which the Western world was built.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Short biographies of some of the most profound and influential people that lived and molded the Age of Reason
- De joseph en 02-03-25
De: Paul Strathern
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Habsburgs on the Rio Grande
- The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire
- De: Raymond Jonas
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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Based on research in five languages and in archives across the globe, Habsburgs on the Rio Grande fundamentally revises narratives of global history. Far more than a footnote, the Second Mexican Empire was at the center of world-historic great-power struggles—a point of inflection in a contest for supremacy that set the terms of twentieth-century rivalry.
De: Raymond Jonas
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El Cid: Castilian Knight
- Reconquista Chronicles, Book 1
- De: Griff Hosker
- Narrado por: Frazer Blaxland
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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This first instalment in the Chronicles tells of Rodrigo’s rise to prominence when he became the champion of Prince Sancho of Castile. This is but the beginning of a tale which still stirs the blood a millennium after it began. The legend that was El Cid began more than 1,000 years ago, and time has meant that reality and fiction are intertwined like the threads of a spider’s web.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun War Story
- De Jonathon en 02-13-21
De: Griff Hosker
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Team of Giants
- The Making of the Spanish-American War
- De: Matthew Bernstein
- Narrado por: Douglas R Pratt
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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If not for an unlikely alliance among a bespectacled cowboy, a former Confederate general, and a millionaire newspaper publisher, the Spanish-American War might never have been. How these three outsize characters—Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph “Fighting Joe” Wheeler, and William Randolph Hearst—helped ignite the war that established the United States’ offshore empire is the rousing tale that Matthew Bernstein tells in Team of Giants.
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The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
- A New History
- De: Yanni Kotsonis
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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This panoramic book shows how the Greek Revolution was a demographic upheaval more consequential than the overthrow of a ruler. Drawing on Ottoman sources together with archival evidence from Greece, Britain, France, Russia, and Switzerland, the book reframes the birth of modern Greece within the imperial history of the global nineteenth century.
De: Yanni Kotsonis
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The Cid, Part 1
- The Exile
- De: El Cid
- Narrado por: Dr. Edmund de Chasca
- Duración: 58 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 6
Excerpts from the classic medieval poem, performed in the original language with English translation, original music, and commentary.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Horrible performance! Don't buy it!
- De Ted en 08-03-12
De: El Cid
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Save Our Souls
- The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
- De: Matthew Pearl
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 11
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On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were the Walkers—the ship’s captain Frederick, his wife Elizabeth, their three teenage sons, and their dog—along with the ship’s crew. The family had spotted a promising fishing location when a terrible storm arose, splitting their vessel in two and leaving those onboard adrift on the perilous sea. When the castaways awoke the next morning, they discovered they had been washed ashore—on an island inhabited by a large but ragged and emaciated man who introduced himself as Hans.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Awful
- De aleris en 02-11-25
De: Matthew Pearl
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Embers of the Hands
- Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
- De: Eleanor Barraclough
- Narrado por: Eleanor Barraclough
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while such characters define our imagination of the Viking Age today, they were in the minority. Instead, in the time-stopping soils, water, and ice of the North, Eleanor Barraclough excavates a preserved lost world, one that reimagines a misunderstood society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Author is an excellent reader!
- De K en 02-11-25
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The First and Last King of Haiti
- The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
- De: Marlene L. Daut
- Narrado por: Don Elivert
- Duración: 29 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
The First and Last King of Haiti is a riveting story of not only geopolitical clashes on a grand scale but also of friendship and loyalty, treachery and betrayal, heroism and strife in an era of revolutionary upheaval.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The unknow history, that was hidden.
- De Flo en 04-06-25
De: Marlene L. Daut
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The Neverending Empire
- The Infinite Impact of Ancient Rome
- De: Aldo Cazzullo, Loredana Maria Rinaldi - translation
- Narrado por: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1
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From its mythical foundations and epic construction to its enduring historical and cultural impact, the ancient Roman Empire has long fascinated people across the world. In The Neverending Empire esteemed Italian journalist Aldo Cazzullo describes an exciting new historical perspective: that the Roman Empire never fell. In fact, its influence reaches further and deeper than ever.
De: Aldo Cazzullo, y otros
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The Crazies
- The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West
- De: Amy Gamerman
- Narrado por: Anna Sale
- Duración: 17 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Most locals in Big Timber, Montana learn to live with the wind. Rick Jarrett sought his fortune in it. Like his pioneer ancestors who staked their claims in the Treasure State, he believed in his right to make a living off the land—and its newest precious resource, million-dollar wind. Trouble was, Jarrett’s neighbors were some of the wealthiest and most influential men in America, trophy ranchers who’d come West to enjoy magnificent mountain views, not stare at 500-foot wind turbines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A glimpse behind the curtain of wealth and outside interests in Montana
- De Karen D Nard en 04-21-25
De: Amy Gamerman
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Ocean
- A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus
- De: John Haywood
- Narrado por: Ben Eagle
- Duración: 18 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonization of the New World.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Prehistory of the Atlantic
- De Sarah C en 03-14-25
De: John Haywood
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Sisters in Science
- De: Olivia Campbell
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
In the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the Nazis took power, Jewish and female citizens were forced out of their academic positions. Hedwig Kohn, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer and Hildegard Stücklen were eminent in their fields, but they had no choice but to flee due to their Jewish ancestry or anti-Nazi sentiments. Their harrowing journey out of Germany became a life-and-death situation that required Herculean efforts of friends and other prominent scientists.
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5 out of 5 stars
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New information re: women/Jewish scientists in Nazi Germany
- De Anonymous User en 03-28-25
De: Olivia Campbell
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Oathbreakers
- The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
- De: Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry
- Narrado por: Paul Bellantoni
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
By the early ninth century, the Carolingian empire was at the height of its power. The Franks, led by Charlemagne, had built the largest European domain since Rome in its heyday. Though they jockeyed for power, prestige, and profit, the Frankish elites enjoyed political and cultural consensus. But just two generations later, their world was in shambles. Civil war, once an unthinkable threat, had erupted after Louis the Pious’s sons tried to overthrow him—and then placed their knives at the other’s neck. Families who had once charged into battle together now drew each other’s blood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The drama is exceptional
- De Nathan en 04-03-25
De: Matthew Gabriele, y otros