Medieval Italy

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The huge peninsula of what we today call Italy saw waves of invasions and sweeping changes over the course of the Medieval period, with huge differences between, say, Milan in the north stretching to Sicily in the south. They spoke different languages, had different rulers, and were settled by very different groups of people.

In this episode of Gone Medieval, Dr. Eleanor Janega tries to make sense of Italy’s complex history in the Middle Ages with Ross King, critically-acclaimed author of the new book The Shortest History of Italy, to sort out the Visigoths from the Vandals and the Papal States from Pisa.

This episode was edited by Ella Blaxill and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:41.2	to a listener request.
0:42.8	Hannah has asked us for more on medieval Italy,
0:45.4	and quite frankly, that is a brilliant idea.
0:48.8	However, saying medieval Italy is in a lot of ways
0:52.1	a really modern idea. This huge peninsula saw sweeping
0:56.2	change over the course of the thousand years of the medieval period. What was true
1:00.0	in say Milan in the north wasn't always holding sway down in Sicily. They spoke different
1:05.1	languages, had different rulers, and were settled by very different groups of people.
1:09.0	So to help us make sense of this complex and fascinating region, we thought we would invite along
1:14.2	Ross King, historian and author of the new book, The Shortest History of Italy, to sort our Visigoths
1:20.4	from our Vandals and the Papal States from Pisa.
1:23.0	Well, Ross, I have to thank you so much for being here because I'm going to put you through
1:27.5	your paces today as you have written this book The Shortest History of Italy.
1:31.2	I'm going to make you do an even shorter history of about you
1:35.5	know 500 years and 40 minutes do you think you're up for that? Well let's find out
1:40.5	let's give it a try because Because a lot happened at that time,
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