13.2 The Battle of Civitate 1053 AD, Part 2
A History of Europe, Key Battles
Carl Rylett
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🗓️ 11 January 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The popes of the eleventh and early twelfth century were hardly living by the standards set by their religion. In spite of this this they still enjoyed considerable reverence among the leaders of Christendom. A papal alliance with the German Emperors, which proved highly valuable but sometimes very difficult, became a key element of medieval Italian history.
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| 0:00.0 | Do, do, do... |
| 0:03.5 | Bampa! |
| 0:07.1 | Bampa! Bampa! Bampa! Bampa! |
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| 0:29.0 | Place must be 18 or over. Welcome to a history of Europe |
| 0:47.8 | The Battle of Chivitate |
| 0:50.8 | Part 2 of 4 |
| 0:53.5 | Last week I described the history of Italy of Chivotate, part two of four. |
| 1:00.8 | Last week I described the history of Italy from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century up into the 950s, by which time the peninsula had broken into a mosaic |
| 1:07.5 | of competing interests, of not only the great powers, but also increasingly |
| 1:12.7 | local powers, such as maritime city-states. |
| 1:17.4 | The good old days of the Roman Empire, though, were not forgotten, and so they persisted in |
| 1:22.5 | many European minds the idea of the global emperor, who could bring back order and prosperity and reunite the disparate |
| 1:30.3 | the disparate peoples of Christendom. |
| 1:34.3 | The problem was, who was the heir of Rome, and so could claim global authority? |
| 1:39.3 | Was it the emperor in Constantinople? After all, the Eastern half of the Empire had never fallen? |
| 1:46.0 | Or was it the Pope as the spiritual head of Christendom and ruler of the city of Rome? |
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