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Venice – The First Doges
IH Season 1: Venice, episode 3: The First Doges Last episode we explored the Venetian lagoon and the forces that helped give the people a shared cultural, economic, and...
Venice: The Foundations of a New City
Italian Histories Season 1: Venice, episode 2 Last episode, we explored the origins of the people who populated the Veneto region and its lagoons, and found that a Venetian...
Venice – The Founding of a People
Italian Histories Season 1: Venice, episode 1 Venetian history begins during the tumultuous end of the Western Roman Empire and I believe it will be helpful to go over...
Italian Histories Trailer & Season One Intro
Welcome to Italian Histories, I’m Jordan Bradley and I’m excited to share this new podcast which explores the varied histories of the peoples and regions of the Italian peninsula....
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Venice – A Saint Comes to Venice
Last episode, we saw the lagoon encircled by Frankish forces, but the Venetians survived Pepin’s siege and escaped submission to the new feudal order taking root in the rest of Europe. The peace treaty between the Byzantines and the Holy Roman Empire – the Pax Nicephori – is the real reason the Franks did not...
Venice – War Comes to the Lagoon
IH Season 1: Venice, episode 4: War Comes to the Lagoon We left off last episode with Maurizio, the son and co-Doge of Doge Giovanni Galbaio, looking down from the tower of the Patriarch of Grado’s residence, as said patriarch plummeted to his death in the piazza below. The overwhelming show of force in not...