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Conquest, empire, naval battles, conspiracies, insurrections. The 1200s and 1300s were interesting times for Venice.
Podcast: Venetian Stories
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Episode 5 — Ascendancy
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Venice became a more important state in the 1000s and 1100s, and started to build not only their trading empire, but also more equal relations to the Byzantine Empire, the Holy Roman Empire and the Pope in Rome.
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Episode 4 — Becoming a state
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Venice appeared as a kind of, but not quite, sovereign polity in the late 700s and 800s. Venetian society, no longer governed directly by Constantinople, nor really independent, had to survive between the two super-powers of their time, Byzantium and the Carolingian Empire.
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Episode 3 — The Roman and Byzantine period
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The origins of Venice go back to Roman times, long before there was a Venetian state, and a city called Venice.
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- Early Venice
- Invasions of Italy in Late Antiquity
- The Birthday of Venice
- Why did Venice become a republic?
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Episode 2 — The Long Arc
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The History of Venice spans some two millennia, and in this first episode of the podcast I’ll try to draw some long lines from the very earliest times until the current.
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Episode 1 — Introduction
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- History Walks Venice.
- Newsletter “Venetian Stories“.
- Curiosità Veneziane
- Pavana alla Veneziana performed by Angelo Branduardi (youtube)
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