Tag: Italian

• 007 – Living with the Lombards

  575-589 The Lombards start to settle down and get to know the neighbourhood and the troublesome neighbours as they go through an interregnum of the Dukes before they get back to electing a king and bashing the Byzantines

  A History of Italy

  February 7, 2018

  Adaloald, Agilulf, Arian, Autari, Bavaria, Benevento, Byzantium, Catholic, Comacina, Como, Exarch, Exarchate, Frank, History, Italian, Italy, Lombard, Milan, Modena, Monza, Pavia, Podcast, Pope, Reggio, Rome, Spoleto, Theodelinda, Turin

• 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

  Amalasuntha, Belisarius, Goth, Gothic, History, Italian, Italy, Justinian, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Podcast, Ravenna, Rimini, Rome, Theodahad, Theodoric, Vitiges

• 003 – Theodoric and the rise and fall of the Ostrogoth kingdom

  493-526 From 493 when Theodoric the Great took contro of the Italian peninsula to his death in 526

  A History of Italy

  January 10, 2018

  Amalasuntha, Arian, Arianism, Eutharic, Goth, History, Italian, Italy, Justin, Justinian, Odoacer, Ostrogoth, Podcast, Pope John, Ravenna, Theodoric, Visihoth, Zeno