Enrico Dandolo & the rise of Venice / Thomas F. Madden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madden, Thomas F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dandolo, Enrico, 1108-1205.

Dandolo, Enrico.

Heads of state--Italy--Venice--Biography.

Heads of state.

Venice (Italy)--History--697-1508.

Venice (Italy).

Italy--Venice.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Enrico Dandolo and the rise of Venice

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Summary:

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 first full-length study devoted to Dandolo's life and times corrects the many misconceptions about him which 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.

Contents:

1 Rise of the New Families 1

2 Patriarch Enrico Dandolo & the Reform of the Venetian Church 19

3 Vitale Dandolo & the Reform of the Venetian State 39

4 Coming of Age, 1175-1192 63

5 The Medieval Dogeship & the Election of 1192 90

6 Enrico Dandolo's Dogeship: The First Decade, 1192-1201 105

7 The Crucible of the Crusade 117

8 Venice & the Diversion 133

9 The Conquest of Constantinople 155

10 The Venetians in the Jatin Empire, 1204-1205 173

Epilogue: Birth of a Maritime Empire 195

Appendix Dandolo Genealogy 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-289) and index.

ISBN:

0801873177

OCLC:

50496362