Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice

Name: Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice
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ISBN: 9780801885396

ISBN-10: 0801885396

ISBN-13: 9780801885396

Edition: 2003

Authors: Thomas F. Madden

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Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, Venice transformed itself from a struggling merchant commune to a powerful maritime empire that would shape events in the Mediterranean for the next four hundred years. In this magisterial new book on medieval Venice, Thomas F. Madden traces the city-state's extraordinary rise through the life of Enrico Dandolo (c. 1107--1205), who ruled Venice as doge from 1192 until his death. The scion of a prosperous merchant family deeply involved in politics, religion, and diplomacy, Dandolo led Venice's forces during the disastrous Fourth Crusade (1201--1204), which set out to conquer Islamic Egypt but instead destroyed Christian Byzantium. Yet despite…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 9/29/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Rise of the New Families



Patriarch Enrico Dandolo & the Reform of the Venetian Church



Vitale Dandolo & the Reform of the Venetian State



Coming of Age, 1175--1192



The Medieval Dogeship & The Election of 1192



Enrico Dandolo's Dogeship: The First Decade, 1192--1201



The Crucible of the Crusade



Venice & the Diversion



The Conquest of Constantinople



The Venetians in the Latin Empire, 1204--1205


Epilogue: Birth of a Maritime Empire