Episode 7.5 - Liutprand
/The Lombards made their way into Italy in the 6th century, and were the bridge between the rule there of Roman Empires, both Western and Eastern, and the Holy Roman Empire. Liutprand was perhaps their greatest king, pulling together a kingdom from the various disunited Lombard dukedoms and creating a state that was the most powerful one on the peninsula for centuries earlier.
Sources
Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardum, translated by William Dudley Foulke
Neil Christie, The Ancient Langobards
David Harry Miller, “Papal-Lombard Relations during the Pontificate of Pope Paul I”, The Catholic Historical Review
Jan T. Hallenbeck, Pavia and Rome: The Lombard Monarchy and the Papacy in the Eighth Century
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