The Middle Kingdoms | Martyn Rady
| Penguin Books Ltd |
| Penguin Books Ltd |
'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...
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