Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice Jurg Niehans except by its effects

except by its effects

visit its churches

entertain and provoke

and create a programme

and not just as a hologram of the present state of the profession

Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice Jurg Niehans except by its effectsBetween 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 scion of a prosperous