The Middle Kingdoms
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'Fascinating, masterful ... gems scattered throughout the book'
Peter Frankopan, Spectator'Quirkily original but also scholarly and
authoritative, to be read for pleasure and serious reflection'
Telegraph*The dramatic history of Europe's shape-shifting centre,
from the author of The Habsburgs*Central Europe is not just a space
on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual
borrowings, impositions and misapprehensions. From the Roman Empire
onwards, it has been the target of invasion from the east.In the
Middle Ages, Central Europeans cast their eastern foes as 'the
dogmen'. They would later become the Turks, Swedes, Russians and
Soviets, all of whom pulled the region apart and remade it
according to their own vision. Competition among Europe's Middle
Kingdoms yielded repeated cultural effervescences.This was the
first home of the High Renaissance outside Italy, the cradle of the
Reformation, the starting point of the Enlightenment, Romanticism,
the symphony and modern nationalism. It was a permanent
battleground too for religious and political ideas. Most recent
histories of Central Europe confine themselves to the lands in
between Germany and Russia, homing in on Poland, Hungary, and what
is now the Czech Republic.This new history embraces the whole of
Central Europe, including the German lands as well as Ukraine and
Switzerland. The story of Europe's Middle Kingdoms is a reminder of
Central Europe's precariousness, of its creativity and turbulence,
and of the common cultural trends that make these lands so
distinctive.
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Penguin Books ,
Martyn Rady
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Penguin Books,
Martyn Rady
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Slovart
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