HISC65H3 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 September 19. 2012.doc
Document Summary
Key themes: early settlement in the lagoon, venice as a bridge between byzantium and the franks, venetian political consolidation and de facto autonmy, the pious theft of st. mark"s body, the fourth crusade and its aftermath. Key terms: veneto, terraferma(mainland, cassiodorus, stato da mar(maritime state, doge, translation of st. mark, pax tibi marce, evangelista meus, winged lion, the fourth crusade(1202-1204, geoffroy de villehardouin(1160-c. 1212, enrioce dandolo(dogeship:1192-1205, the sack of constantinople. Arial photo of venice, northwest tip of the adriatic sea. German map of the venetian empire(sea based empire controlling other islands) Map showing the venice and the proximity to the mainland. Origins of venice - shrouded in myth. 421 king of vivigoths leading an invasion (no evidence) 453 attila the hun invasion, believe he was buried there. The lagoon was never the abandoned marshlands, in fact it was a farmland in earlier time. Suggests that venice was a more a man made structure vs. a natural settle- ment.
