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Germanic Tribes: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Franks and Lombards
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Germanic Tribes: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Franks and Lombards
Narrated by:
Jason Zenobia
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Publisher's Summary
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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