The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453, credited to Eleanor Constance Lodge, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453 by Eleanor Constance Lodge. Read in English by Pamela Nagami Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short survey, the 180 years between 1273 and 1453 are characterized as a period of "transition--a time in which medieval characteristics were decaying and modern characteristics were growing up." This is the age of Joan of Arc, of the recovery of Spain from the Moors, of the failed Crusades of the Teutonic Knights, and of the union of Poland and Lithuania under the strong house of Jagello. The Swiss Republic rose, while schism divided the Papacy and the German states. And all the while the European powers were wrangling among themselves, the Ottoman Turks were advancing across the eastern Mediterranean. The book closes with the fall of Constantinople before the overwhelming assault by land and sea of the great general, Mehmed the Conqueror, which marked the end, after 1500 years, of the Eastern Roman Empire. - Summary by Pamela Nagami

Recording facts

• Recording title: The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453
• Author credits: Eleanor Constance Lodge
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 8:42:32

Catalogue topics

• middle ages
• Joan of Arc
• moors
• holy roman emperor
• henry vii
• philip the fair
• teutonic knights
• boniface viii

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 00 - Introduction — 8:44
2. 01 - Ch. 1: Germany and the Empire, 1273-1378, Pt. 1 — 21:28
3. 02 - Ch. 1: Germany and the Empire, 1273-1378, Pt. 2 — 25:17
4. 03 - Ch. 2: Italy, 1273-1313, Pt. 1 — 21:04
5. 04 - Ch. 2: Italy, 1273-1313, Pt. 2 — 23:04
6. 05 - Ch. 3: French History, 1273-1328, Pt. 1 — 20:37
7. 06 - Ch. 3: French History, 1273-1328, Pt. 2 — 18:22
8. 07 - Ch. 4: Italy, 1313-1378, Pt. 1 — 27:19
9. 08 - Ch. 4: Italy, 1313-1378, Pt. 2 — 29:11
10. 09 - Ch. 5: Rise of the Swiss Republic, Pt. 1 — 11:27
11. 10 - Ch. 5: Rise of the Swiss Republic, Pt. 2 — 15:02
12. 11 - Ch. 6: Schisms in the Papacy and Empire, Pt. 1 — 17:48
13. 12 - Ch. 6: Schisms in the Papacy and Empire, Pt. 2 — 16:16
14. 13 - Ch. 7: French History, 1328-1380, Pt. 1 — 26:55
15. 14 - Ch. 7: French History, 1328-1380, Pt. 2 — 22:44
16. 15 - Ch. 8: Empire and Papacy, 1414-1453, Pt. 1 — 24:57
17. 16 - Ch. 8: Empire and Papacy, 1414-1453, Pt. 2 — 27:02
18. 17 - Ch. 9: Italy, 1382-1453, Pt. 1 — 21:06
19. 18 - Ch. 9: Italy, 1382-1453, Pt. 2 — 19:14
20. 19 - Ch. 10: History of France, 1380-1453, Pt. 1 — 22:55
21. 20 - Ch. 10: History of France, 1380-1453, Pt. 2 — 19:54
22. 21 - Ch. 11: The Shores of the Baltic, Pt. 1 — 11:47
23. 22 - Ch. 11: The Shores of the Baltic, Pt. 2 — 12:42
24. 23 - Ch. 12: The Spanish Peninsula, Pt. 1 — 14:15

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