Famous Men of the Middle Ages by Haaren and Poland

Joan of Arc  by Swynnerton

Note: please see the bottom of this post for information about 5 missing chapters.

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Total running time: 4 hours, 40 minutes

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One of the Valkyries bearing a hero to Valhalla

Preface

Chapter 1, The Gods of the Teutons

2, The Nibelungs

3, Alaric the Visigoth

4,Attila the Hun
The meeting of Leo the Great and Attila by Raphael

5, Genseric the Vandal

6, Theodoric the Ostragoth

7, Clovis

Justinian

8, Justinian the Great

9, Mohammed

10, Charles Martel and Pepin

11, Charlemagne
Charlemagne by Raphael

12, Haren-al-Raschid

13, Egbert the Saxon

14, Rollo the Viking

15, Alfred the Great

16, Henry the Fowler

17, Canute the Great

El Cid Fog in San Francisco over statue of Ruy Diaz de Vivar

18, The Cid

19, Edward the Confessor

20, William the Conqueror

21, Peter the Hermit

22, Frederick Barbarossa

23, Henry II and his sons

Louis IX

24, Louis IX

25, Robert Bruce

26, Marco Polo

Marco Polo traveling

27, Edward the Black Prince

28, William Tell and Arnold von Winkelreid

Gessler and Tell

29, Tamerlane

30, Henry V

31, Joan of Arc

Gutenberg at work

32, Gutenberg

33, Warwick the Kingmaker

Note: The original version of this book was published by Haaren and Poland in 1904, and is now in the public domain. There is another version which was edited by Rob and Cindy Shearer, and published by Greenleaf Press in 1992 and again in 2007. This newer version contains 5 additional chapters, written by Rob Shearer. The book that Mr. Shearer updated is not in the public domain, but it can be purchased from Greenleaf Press.

The five additional chapters in the newer version of this book are:
Chapter II Augustine of Hippo
Chapter IV Patrick of Ireland
Chapter IX Benedict and Gregory
Chapter XXII Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV
Chapter XXVI Francis and Dominic

If you’d like to listen to audio content that is available, as a replacement for these missing chapters, we suggest the following:

Augustine of Hippo

Patrick of Ireland

We are still looking for audio material to replace content from these other chapters. If we are able to locate suitable content, we’ll post the links here.

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