Tag: Spoleto

• Crossover 1 part 1 – With “The History of the Papacy” on the Lombards

  In this first ever crossover episode, we talk to Steve Guerra of the History of the Papacy podcast about the Lombards. This is part 1 of 2.

  A History of Italy

  August 27, 2019

  Acquileia, Alboin, Benevento, Cividale, Cleph, Franks, History of the papacy, Liutprand, Lombard, Podcast, Rothari, Spoleto, Steve Guerra, Verona

• 057 – Hadrian and Frederick’s troubles in Rome

  1154 – 1155 Hadrian IV tries to come to terms with the Roman commune and its moral leader, Arnaldo da Brescia, but the results are not quite as they expected

  A History of Italy

  July 30, 2019

  Arnaldo da Brescia, Capitoline Hill, Frederick Barbarossa, Hadrian IV, Leonine cCity, Manuel Komnenus, Podcast, Rome, Senate, Sicily, Spoleto, Tiber, William I

• 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

• 025 – Ottonian Italy

  966 – 973 Otto I of Germany continues to consolidate his hold over Italy, attempting to go all the way south and dislodge the remaining Byzantine presence, meanwhile setting up his son with a Byzantine princess, Theophanu.

  A History of Italy

  August 4, 2018

  Arab, Benevento, Byzantine, Capua, Otto I, Otto II, Pandolfo Ironhead, Podcast, Rome, Salerno, Spoleto, Theophanu

• 021 – Rowdy Roman Revelry: Marozia’s pornocracy

  897 – 910 We take a look at the situation of debauchery and corruption that Italy, and more specifically Rome, fell into during the ninth and tenth centuries, with a particular focus on the Tuscolo family and perhaps its most famous member, Marozia.

  A History of Italy

  June 21, 2018

  Alberic I, Arnulf, Formosus, History, Italy, John IX, John X, John XI, Lambert of Spoleto, Marozia, Podcast, Pornocracy, Rome, Sergius III, Spoleto, Theophylact, Thodora, Tusculum