The Hammer at Tours
Chapter 1
Story Time, Episode 7. Goes with Story of the World, Volume 2, chapters 11 and 12. About 4 minutes. Voices were made with ElevenLabs. The music box is played live by your browser. Turn Voices off to read the captions together at your own pace; each line still moves on by itself.
Where the facts come from
- Goes with Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World, Volume 2: The Middle Ages (Peace Hill Press), chapters 11 and 12. The story here is our own telling.
- Charles Martel, the Umayyad advance from Spain under Abd al-Rahman, and the battle near Tours and Poitiers in 732: Paul Fouracre, The Age of Charles Martel (Longman, 2000).
- Scripture: Proverbs 21:31, King James Version.
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