Tag: Byzantium

• 102 – Venice kicks off its 14th century (up to 1310’s)

  We go back to one of our favorite destinations: Venice, which we last left at the start of the 13th century to bring the maritime republic up to the 14th. We see some crazy laws as the republic move more and more to an oligarchy and has bit of trouble as the 14th starts up,…

  A History of Italy

  December 1, 2020

  Azzo D'Este, Byzantium, Contarini, Doge, Enrico Dandalo, Este, Ferrara, Genoa, Jacopo Tiepolo, Modena, Morosini, Pisa, Podcast, Pope Clement V, Reggio Emilia, Venice, Ziani

• 067 – Venice part 04

  After being guided into the new millenium by Domenico II Orsoleo, we follow the (all too high) rise and downfall of the family as Venice itself rises and falls along its way through the 11th century with its new Norman threat as the first crusade draws closer.

  A History of Italy

  November 13, 2019

  Byzantium, Flabanico, flood, Norman, Ottone Orsoleo, Pietro II Orsoleo, Podcast, Robert Guiscard, Venice

• 064 – Venice part 01

  We take another break from our chronological progress to take a look at Venice as we reach the fourth Crusade, the event that dramatically changed the maritime republic. IN this episode we go from the foundation to the Frankish attack in 810.

  A History of Italy

  October 23, 2019

  Byzantium, Doge, Exarch, Lagoon, Pepin, Podcast, Rome, Venice

• 063 – After Legnano, the cool Crusade and the Italian one

  1176 – 1204 We take a look at the aftermath of the battle of Legnano which saw the forces of the Lombard League victorious against Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Then we take a quick look at the third and fourth Crusades.

  A History of Italy

  October 1, 2019

  Alessandria, Alexios, Bonifacio di Monferrato, Byzantium, Como, Constantinople, Cremona, Enrico Dandolo, Fourth Crusade, Frederick Barbarossa, Guido da Landriano, Ivrea, Legnano, Lombard League, Milan, Modena, Parma, Podcast, Pope Celestine III, Pope Gregory VIII, Pope Innocent III, Pope Lucius III, Reggio Emilia, Theobald of Champagne, Third Crusade, Turin, Venice, Verona

• 047 – Bye bye Byzantines – The end of Byzantine Italy part 1

  We take a look back at the Byzantine presence in Italy, from the Gothic War in 535 up to the start of the seventh century.

  A History of Italy

  March 20, 2019

  Arab, Belisarius, Byzantine, Byzantium, Constantinople, Exarch, Exarchate, Genoa, Goths, Gregory the Great, Justinian, Lombard, Naples, Narses, Pentapolis, Podcast, Ravenna, Rome, Rothari, Sicily