Talk:Italy in the Middle Ages

Romagnole Wars
In the article on Giovanni Malatesta that I abstracted from the Catholic Encyclopedia there is a reference to the Romagnole Wars. The rest is silence. Cutler 23:42, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

Fact-checking
In 951? the thrones of Italy and Germany were united.. y is so easy to edit these things?

Geographic weirdness
‘ The Imperial authority never extended much south of the Italian peninsula.’ What, not into Lampedusa? Not into Africa? What is intended here (and is it true)? —Ian Spackman 21:00, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Anachronistic and erroneous list of popes
The section "Rise of the Catholic Church" says "After the Lombard invasion, the popes (i.e. St. Gregory, St. Peter, and St. Mark) were nominally subject to the eastern emperor, but often received little help from Constantinople"; but the table of contents shows this section to be part of "Transition from Late Antiquity (6th to 8th centuries)". "St. Peter" is linked directly to the original apostle. It's plausible that linking to Pope Peter of Alexandria was actually intended, because he at least is roughly coeval with Pope Mark, to whom "St. Mark" is linked; but both are way before the 6th to 8th centuries. Pope Gregory I does make sense in this context. The sentence says "after the Lombard invasion", but the other 2 popes were centuries before it. And "i.e." instead of "e.g." there implies that the list is at least contiguous, if not complete. This list made me start to think of the entire paragraph as gibberish; HOWEVER, the central assertions of the paragraph are actually true AFAIK. I don't want to do an edit myself here because I'm a novice at medieval history, but just switching to "(e.g. Pope Gregory I)" would help. Of course, the whole thing should be sourced in the context of a rewrite. 67.183.64.49 (talk) 16:04, 10 April 2013 (UTC)