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Lotharingia - A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country (Hardcover)
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A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2019 Shortlisted for The
Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 'No Briton has
written better than Winder about Europe' Sunday Times At the heart
of western Europe lies a huge swath of land, stretching from the
mud and fogs of the North Sea coast, down through countless market
towns, ports, fortresses and ancient cathedrals, through a mass of
river systems and forests, all the way to the great barrier of the
Alps. Divided by their languages, religions and frontiers, everyone
living there shares one thing: that they are inhabitants of a lost
part of Europe - Lotharingia. In his highly entertaining new book
Simon Winder tells the story of this ghostly but persistent
presence. In AD 843, 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 what became France,
another Germany and the third Lotharingia, the chunk that initially
divided the other two chunks: 'the lands of Lothar'. The dynamic
between these three great zones has dictated much of our subsequent
fate. Lotharingia is a history of this in-between land and joins
the equally fascinating Germania and Danubia in Simon Winder's
personal exploration of Europe. In this beguiling, hilarious and
compelling book we retrace how both from west and from east any
number of ambitious characters have tried and failed to grapple
with these people. Over many centuries, not only has Lotharingia
brought forth many of Europe's greatest artists, inventors and
thinkers, but it has also reduced many a would-be conqueror to
helpless tears of rage and frustration. 'He is a master of the art
of making history both funny and fun, with never any loss of
seriousness. Once again he brings Germany bouncing back to life.'
Simon Jenkins, author of A Short History of Europe.
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