A History of Italy

Special episode 01 – The 2018 Italian election

An explanation and recap of the 2018 Italian election

010 – Getting tired of living with the Lombards

712 - 744 Liutprand, one of the top 3 Lombard kings and his successors, Ratchis and Aistulf with the pope becoming more of a player and the Franks looming as ever

009 – A crazy confusing conundrum of kings

652-712 From the death of Rothari through a series of kings to the reign of Ansprand in 712 as usual with some Franks and Byzantines thrown in

008 – The Lombards get comfy and some laws

590 - 643 The end of the reign of Agilulf, through Adaloald and Airport through to Rothari and his historical edict

007 – Living with the Lombards

575-589 The Lombards start to settle down and get to know the neighbourhood and the troublesome neighbours as they go through an interregnum of the Dukes before they get back to electing a king and bashing the Byzantines

006 – Here come the Lombards

555-574 A quick look at the brief period of Byzantine rule before the arrival of the Lombards in 568 and then we look at their invasion of Italy and hear a bit of juicy royal gossip

005 – The Gothic War continues

540-554 The war between the Ostrogoths in Italy and the imperial forces of Byzantium continues from 540 and reaches it's end in 552

004 – Queen Amalasuntha and Byztantium gets annoyed

526-540 From the death of Theodoric the great in 526, through the regency of his daughter Amalasuntha, to the end of the first phase of the Gothic war in 540

003 – Theodoric and the rise and fall of the Ostrogoth kingdom

493-526 From 493 when Theodoric the Great took contro of the Italian peninsula to his death in 526

002 – The new Italian kingdom from Odoacer to Theodoric

476-493 The Italian kingdom of Odoacer (476 – 493) and the takeover by the Goths of Theodoric the Great