This book examines the significant changes that Venice underwent between the late-sixth and the early-eleventh centuries. It is addressed to scholars and students interested in medieval Italy and the Mediterranean, as well as general readers.

Luigi Andrea Berto is Professor of Medieval History at Western Michigan University, USA. His research focuses on medieval Italy and the Mediterranean, and the relationships between Christians and Muslims.

Introduction 1. War and violence in early medieval Venice: Perceptions and mentality 2. Peter IV Candiano: a duke deposed because he was too virtuous or too authoritarian? 3. Under the 'Romans' or under the Franks? Venice between two empires 4. Rumors of wars and deeds of emperors: Circulation of news and 'stories' about non-Venetians in early medieval Venice 5. Emperor Otto III in Venice 6. All is well on the Western Front? The image of the early medieval Venetian frontier between the second and the third Millennium. 7. Remaining Roman on the frontier? The Latin and Greek onomastics of eighth-century Lombard Treviso and its relationship with early medieval Venice 8. 'As an angel revealed to her': Miracles, visions, predictions, and supernatural phenomena and the politics of memory in early medieval Venice.