Lotharingia : a personal history of Europe's lost country / Simon Winder.
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TextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019Edition: First American editionDescription: xi, 504 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374192181
- 0374192189
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Following Germania and Danubia , the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe
In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the great emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ways. In a moment of staggering significance, one grandson inherited the area we now know as France, another Germany and the third received the piece in between: Lotharingia.
Lotharingia is a history of in-between Europe. It is the story of a place between places. In this beguiling, hilarious and compelling book, Simon Winder retraces the various powers that have tried to overtake the land that stretches from the mouth of the Rhine to the Alps and the might of the peoples who have lived there for centuries.
"Originally published in 2019 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
"From the bestselling author of Germania, Lotharingia is the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [473]-480) and index.