A History of Italy

006 – Here come the Lombards

555-574 A quick look at the brief period of Byzantine rule before the arrival of the Lombards in 568 and then we look at their invasion of Italy and hear a bit of juicy royal gossip

A History of Italy

January 31, 2018

Alduin, Byzantium, Cleph, Elmechi, Empire, Frea, Germanic, History, Italian, Italy, Lombard, Longinus, Narses, Odin, Podcast, Roman, Rosamunda, Wotan

005 – The Gothic War continues

540-554 The war between the Ostrogoths in Italy and the imperial forces of Byzantium continues from 540 and reaches it’s end in 552

A History of Italy

January 24, 2018

Belisarius, Benedict, Benedictine, Busta Gallorum, Byzantium, Constantinople, Goths, History, Italian, Italy, Justinian, Mons Lactarius, Narses, Ostrogoth, Podcast, Ravenna, Rimini, Rome, Sicily, Taginae, Teia, Theodoric, Totila, Vitiges

004 – Queen Amalasuntha and Byztantium gets annoyed

526-540 From the death of Theodoric the great in 526, through the regency of his daughter Amalasuntha, to the end of the first phase of the Gothic war in 540

A History of Italy

January 17, 2018