Tag: Otto III

• 066 – Venice part 03

  After addressing some listener questions on Venice, we first see Venice pass through a period of division and crisis before it finds a “saviour” in Pietro II Orsoleo who bring the city triumphantly into he new millenium.

  A History of Italy

  November 6, 2019

  Arduin of Ivrea, Feudal, Henry II, Otto II, Otto III, Pietro Candiano, Pietro II Orsoleo, Podcast, Theophanu, Venice, Vitale Candiano

• Recap 02 – episodes 014 – 027

  In this recap episode we look back over the period from the fall of the Lombard kingdom at the hands of Charlemagne in 774 to the year 1000.

  A History of Italy

  August 27, 2018

  Alberic, Apulia, Arab, Benevento, Charlemagne, Emirate, History, Italy, John Xii, Leo III, Liguria, Marozia, Otto I, Otto II, Otto III, Pandolfo Ironhead, Podcast, Pope, Rome, Salerno, Sicily, Spoleto, Theophanu, Theophylact, Tuscany, Venice

• 027 – Yet another Otto (III)

  983 – 1002 After the death of Otto II, we see how his young son was brought up to manhood under the regency of his mother Theophanu and his grandmother Adelaide of Italy and how he became an emperor with dreams of greatness, as well as how those dress clashed with reality

  A History of Italy

  August 19, 2018

  Adelaide, Boniface VII, Crescenzio II, Cresenzi, Germany, Gregorio Tuscolo, Gregory V, John XIV, John XV, John XVI, Marozia, Otto II, Otto III, Podcast, Ravenna, Rome, Soratte, Thophanu, Todi