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4 days ago · Italy in the early Middle Ages. The Roman Empire was an international political system in which Italy was only a part, though an important part. When the empire fell, a series of barbarian kingdoms initially ruled the peninsula, but, after the Lombard invasion of 568–569, a network of smaller political entities arose throughout Italy.
2 days ago · Italy in the early Middle Ages. The late Roman Empire and the Ostrogoths. Fifth-century political trends; The Ostrogothic kingdom; The end of the Roman world; Lombards and Byzantines. The Lombard kingdom, 584–774; Popes and exarchs, 590–800; Ethnic identity and government. Lombard Italy; Byzantine Italy; Similarities between Lombard and ...
4 days ago · Italy - Renaissance, City-States, Culture: In the second half of the 10th century, Italy began a slow recovery from the turmoils of late Carolingian Europe. During the previous century the Po River valley had been exposed to Magyar raiders.
2 days ago · The county of Savoy expanded its territory into the peninsula in the late Middle Ages, while Florence developed into a highly organized commercial and financial city-state, becoming for many centuries the European capital of silk, wool, banking and jewellery. Central and southern Italy was far poorer than the north.
2 days ago · Various events and historical transitions have been proposed as the start of the early modern period, including the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the start of the Renaissance, the end of the Crusades and the beginning of the Age of Discovery.
1 day ago · The Middle Ages is the second of the three major periods in the most enduring scheme of analysing European history: antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern era. The Italian Leonardo Bruni (d. 1444) was the first to use tripartite periodisation in 1442, and it became standard with the German historian Christoph Cellarius (d. 1707).
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2 days ago · Siena reached the height of its splendour in the Middle Ages, when in 1147 it became an independent comune after a century of rule under the bishop. After gaining its independence, the city adopted an expansionistic policy, considerably increasing its domains.
