Germanic Tribes: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Franks and Lombards

De: Captivating History

Narrado por: Jason Zenobia

Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook:

• History of the Franks: A Captivating Guide to a Group of Germanic Peoples Who Invaded the Western Roman Empire
• History of the Lombards: A Captivating Guide to a Group of Germanic Peoples Who Invaded Italy and Ruled Large Areas of the Italian Peninsula

Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include:

• Where the Franks came from before they moved into Roman Gaul
• How the Franks, through military skill and cunning, managed to acquire power
• How Clovis created a unified kingdom and why it dissolved in family squabbles
• The origin of Christian saints that are venerated today in France
• How an Irish monk founded a new kind of monasticism in France
• How the Franks under in-fighting royal families managed to keep France safe from foreign invaders
• How the great military leader Charles Martel achieved success in unifying France

Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include:

• The route the nomadic Lombards followed as they migrated from northern Germany to Italy
• How the Lombards eventually turned against the Romans who invited them to settle in Italy
• How the first Lombard king in Italy was murdered in 572 CE by his wife as revenge for the murder of her father
• Why the Lombards reinstituted their kingship after ten years of managing without a king
• The intricacies of Lombard strategic alliances that allowed them to expand their kingdom from the north of Italy to the southern tip of the Italian Peninsula
• Why the Lombards gradually abandoned a heretical Christian sect and adopted orthodox Catholicism
• Ending Lombard rule in southern Italy.

If you want to learn more about the history of the Franks and Lombards, get this audiobook now!

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Ethnocentric perspective

A bit narrow in regarding the importance of Germanic subject tribes and disregarding others like Jews, Berbers, and Steppe Nomads

good

pretty good but I feel like dude could have used some water after the conclusion of the franks lol

2 books for the price of 1

This is a book bundle of two different books. I enjoyed both of the books, the book about the Lombards was exceptionally good

Great book

Another interesting read from Captivating History. I learned so much about these two particular Germanic tribes. I had never realized the Lombards were considered a Germanic tribe, which goes to show that people with Germanic ancestry traveled and settled in places far and wide.

The book is full of details, uses good sources, and the narrative flows well. Jason Zenobia is by far the best of the narrators that Captivating History utilizes for its books.