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Lotharingia : a personal history of Europe's lost country / Simon Winder.

by Winder, Simon.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

944.38014 W763L

Lothair II, King of Lorraine, approximately 825-869.

Europe -- History -- 476-1492.

Europe, Western -- History.

Benelux countries -- History.

Germany -- History.

Lorraine (France) -- History.

9780374192181 (pbk)

1st American ed.

xi, 504 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

"Originally published in 2019 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, Great Britain"--T.p. verso.

"Edward Stanffod Travel Writing Awards 2020: Shortlisted Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award"--Sticker on cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-480) and index.

"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."--Publisher.

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