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

By: Captivating History
Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
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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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