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Lotharingia : a personal history of Europe's lost country / Simon Winder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winder, Simon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lothair II, King of Lorraine, approximately 825-869.
- Lothair.
- History.
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Europe.
- Europe, Western--History.
- Europe, Western.
- Benelux countries--History.
- Benelux countries.
- Germany--History.
- Germany.
- Lorraine (France)--History.
- Lorraine (France).
- Western Europe.
- France--Lorraine.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 504 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Summary:
- "From the bestselling author of Germania, Lotharingia is the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 p. 17
- Ice-sheets to Asterix
- The warlord
- Bees and buckles
- The rule of the saints
- Rhinegold
- The call of the oliphant
- Chapter 2 p. 47
- The split inheritance
- Margraves, landgraves, dukes and counts
- Imperial grandeur and decay
- Boulogne boy makes good
- The Cistercians
- Chapter 3 p. 77
- The Sibyl of the Rhine
- Some nuts and bolts
- Stories of Wolf Inngrim
- Street scenes
- Amiens Cathedral and its aftermath
- Famine, plague and flood
- The bold and the mad
- Chapter 4 p. 113
- The fearless and the good
- Prayer nuts
- A word of advice from Mehmet the Conqueror
- Poor local decision-making
- The bold and the Swiss
- Chapter 5 p. 139
- The great inheritance
- Mary the Rich and the future of the world
- New management at Hawk Castle
- 'Beware, beware, God sees!'
- Uses for paper
- Chapter 6 p. 167
- The New World
- Margaret of Austria
- The life and adventures of Charles V
- The Oranges
- Rebellion
- The Catholic case
- Chapter 7 p. 197
- The sufferings of Lady Belge
- Life in 'the garden'
- Birds, beasts and flowers
- Croissants of crisis
- Whitewash and clear glass
- Chapter 8 p. 223
- 'A harvest of joys'
- Fencers and soap-boilers
- Elizabeth and her children
- Uncle Toby's hobby-horse
- 'Too late to be ambitious'
- Chapter 9 p. 253
- Nancy and Lorraine
- Rebuilding the Rhine
- Sperm by candlelight
- Gilt and beshit
- Adventures in tiny states
- In the time of the periwigs
- Chapter 10 p. 289
- Heroic and ominous
- 'The old times have gone'
- The great French gingerbread-baker
- Armies of the Ocean Coast
- Europe reordered
- 'What is there to fear if you are a slave?'
- Chapter 11 p. 323
- Strange happenings underground
- The New Rhine
- The Translation Bureau of Barbarian Books
- Baden in turmoil
- A Newfoundland dog in Luzern
- Grand Duchies, Empires and Kingdoms
- Chapter 12 p. 361
- Kilometre pigs
- French exiles
- Metz and the nationalist frontline
- Expanses of baize
- Bullets, tusks and rubber
- Rays and masks
- Chapter 13 p. 395
- 'Barracks, barracks, barracks'
- War plans
- The Battle of the Frontiers
- Kilomètre 0
- Red, yellow and blue
- Shame on the Rhine
- Chapter 14 p. 433
- Dreams of Corfu
- Walls and bridges
- The Kingdom of Mattresses
- The road to Strasbourg
- Armageddon
- Charlemagne comes home.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in 2019 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [473]-480) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374192181
- 0374192189
- OCLC:
- 1079411032
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