venetians Archive

  • Signoria

    Signoria

    Posted on November 13, 2008 | No Comments
    A Signoria (from Signore or Lord) was an abstract noun meaning (roughly) ‘government; governing authority; de facto sovereignty; lordship in many of the Italian city states during the medieval and renaissance periods. The perennial “power vacuum” of medieval Italy In the sixth century AD the...

    Full Story

  • The Great Plague

    The Great Plague

    Posted on November 2, 2008 | No Comments
    Medieval people called the 14th century catastrophe either the “Great Pestilence”‘ or the “Great Plague”. Writers contemporary to the plague referred to the event as the “Great Mortality”. The term “Black Death” was introduced for the first time in 1833. It has been popularly thought...

    Full Story