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Author : Kathryn Hinds
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 050/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Venice and Its Merchant Empire by : Kathryn Hinds
Download or read book Venice and Its Merchant Empire written by Kathryn Hinds. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _Abounds in inspiring ideas and proposals. A helpful bibliography completes Beghtol's noteworthy and recommendable study..._ --KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION
Author : Roger Crowley
Release : 2012-01-24
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 261/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis City of Fortune by : Roger Crowley
Download or read book City of Fortune written by Roger Crowley. This book was released on 2012-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”—The Financial Times The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between are three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance, during which a tiny city of “lagoon dwellers” grow into the richest place on earth. Drawing on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. From the opening of the spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of its time—the reverberations of which are still being felt today. “[Crowley] writes with a racy briskness that lifts sea battles and sieges off the page.”—The New York Times “Crowley chronicles the peak of Venice’s past glory with Wordsworthian sympathy, supplemented by impressive learning and infectious enthusiasm.”—The Wall Street Journal
Author : Thomas F. Madden
Release : 2003-09-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 171/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice by : Thomas F. Madden
Download or read book Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice written by Thomas F. Madden. This book was released on 2003-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2005 Otto Grundler Award, the International Congress on Medieval Studies 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 his influence on the course of Venetian history, we know little about Dandolo, and much of what is known has been distorted by myth. The first full-length study devoted to Dandolo's life and times, Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice corrects the many misconceptions about him that have accumulated over the centuries, offering an accurate and incisive assessment of Dandolo's motives, abilities, and achievements as doge, as well as his role—and Venice's—in the Fourth Crusade. Madden also examines the means and methods by which the Dandolo family rose to prominence during the preceding century, thus illuminating medieval Venice's singular political, social, and religious environment. Culminating with the crisis precipitated by the failure of the Fourth Crusade, Madden's groundbreaking work reveals the extent to which Dandolo and his successors became torn between the anxieties and apprehensions of Venice's citizens and its escalating obligations as a Mediterranean power.
Author : John E. Dotson
Release : 1994
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Merchant Culture in Fourteenth Century Venice by : John E. Dotson
Download or read book Merchant Culture in Fourteenth Century Venice written by John E. Dotson. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederic Chapin Lane
Release : 1973-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Venice, A Maritime Republic by : Frederic Chapin Lane
Download or read book Venice, A Maritime Republic written by Frederic Chapin Lane. This book was released on 1973-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Venice from the earliest times - Crusades - Ships and navigation - Byzantine and Gothics - Humanism - Renaissance - Merchant shipping - Scuole.
