Lotharingia : A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country (Paperback)

from k6gst

This is a highly entertaining, idiosyncratic, and apparently random tour of the kingdom that Lothair II inherited from father Lothair I, which was cut down from what Lothair I inherited from his grandfather Charlemagne. Today we call it the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Lorraine parts of ...

from nbmars

By the time Charlemagne died in 814, he had united most of western and central Europe into a vast (for the time) political entity that became known as the Holy Roman Empire. How the Empire was to be ruled after his death was not immediately apparent. His progeny (and others) squabbled over contro...

from bezzabouza

Een boek met veel interessante weetjes maar het springt te veel van de hak op de tak waardoor het minder vlot leest en het soms wel heel verwarrend wordt. Ook de talloze persoonlijke intermezzo's stoorden me nogal omdat die weinig bijbrachten aan het verhaal. De vertaling zelf getuigt van haastwe...

from EricCostello

A look at the history of what was once the middle part of Charles the Great's great kingdom of the early medieval era, more or less being the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, eastern France, Switzerland and western Germany. The history is nicely done, but the author does have a tendency to trip ...

from EricCostello

A look at the history of what was once the middle part of Charles the Great's great kingdom of the early medieval era, more or less being the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, eastern France, Switzerland and western Germany. The history is nicely done, but the author does have a tendency to trip ...