Audiobook: Famous Men of the Middle Ages
- Download 00 β Preface audio
- Download 01 β The Gods of the Teutons audio
- Download 02 β The Nibelungs audio
- Download 03 β Alaric the Visigoth audio
- Download 04 β Attila the Hun audio
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- Download 06 β Theodoric the Ostrogoth audio
- Download 07 β Clovis audio
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- Download 11 β Charlemagne audio
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- Download 13 β Egbert the Saxon audio
- Download 14 β Rollo the Viking audio
- Download 15 β Alfred the Great audio
- Download 16 β Henry the Fowler audio
- Download 17 β Canute the Great audio
- Download 18 β The Cid audio
- Download 19 β Edward the Confessor audio
- Download 20 β William the Conqueror audio
- Download 21 β Peter the Hermit audio
- Download 22 β Frederick Barbarossa audio
- Download 23 β Henry II and his sons audio
- Download 24 β Louis IX audio
- Download 25 β Robert Bruce audio
- Download 26 β Marco Polo audio
- Download 27 β Edward the Black Prince audio
- Download 28 β William Tell and Arnold von Winkelreid audio
- Download 29 β Tamerlane audio
- Download 30 β Henry V audio
- Download 31 β Joan of Arc audio
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βTHE study of history, like the study of a landscape, should begin with the most conspicuous features. Not until these have been fixed in memory will the lesser features fall into their appropriate places and assume their right proportions.
The famous men of ancient and modern times are the mountain peaks of history. It is logical then that the study of history should begin with the biographies of these men.
Not only is it logical; it is also pedagogical. Experience has proven that in order to attract and hold the childβs attention each conspicuous feature of history presented to him should have an individual for its center. The child identifies himself with the personage presented. It is not Romulus or Herecules or Alexander that the child has in mind when be reads, but himself, acting under similar conditions.β
(Excerpt from the Preface of βFamous Men of the Middle Agesβ)
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