Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice

by Thomas F. Madden

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801885396
• ISBN13: 9780801885396
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher