by Simon Winder
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John A. Lynn, The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714 (Harlow, 1999)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England, vol. 1 (London, 1906)
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Leo McKinstry, Operation Sealion (London, 2014)
Gordon McLachlan, The Rough Guide to Germany, 6th edition (London, 2004)
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John C. G. Röhl, Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900–1941 (Cambridge, 2014)
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Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades: 2: The Kingdom of Jerusalem (Cambridge, 1952)
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Richard Vaughan, John the Fearless (Woodbridge, 2002)
Richard Vaughan, Philip the Bold (Woodbridge, 2002)
Richard Vaughan, Philip the Good (Woodbridge, 2002)
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I must also acknowledge the superb 1:410 000 map created by the Institut National de l’Information Géographique et Forestière to mark the centenary of the First World War, showing the Western Front in remarkable detail, which I have referred to over and over again, not just in relation to the fighting but also for Lotharingian issues of many kinds.
Index
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Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle)
and Charlemagne
Charlemagne Prize
Congress of (1818)
coronations in
and famine
and Napole
on
Treasury
and the Vikings
Aare, River
Aargau
abbeys
Acre, fall of (1291)
Adam
Adelaide of Alsace
Adolf, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Agassiz, Louis
Agincourt, Battle of (1415)
Aigeline of Burgundy
Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of (1748)
Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) see Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle)
Alberich, Operation (1917)
Albert, Prince Consort
Albert VII, Archduke of Austria
Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia
Alemanni
Alexander I, Tsar of Russia
Alexander II, Pope
Alexander the Great
Allen, General Henry T.
Alps
Alsace
Alemanni in
Great Peasants’ War (1524–5)
and Maginot Line
part of France
part of Further Austria
part of Germany (Gau Westmark)
part of Germany (Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen)
Schloß Hochkönigsburg
and Württemberg
Alsace-Lorraine
and First World War
part of Prussia/Germany
altar paintings
Altenberg Abbey
Alva, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of
Governor of the Netherlands
and The Garden of Earthly Delights (Bosch)
American Revolutionary War
Amerongen Castle
Amiens
Amiens, Treaty of (1802)
Amiens Cathedral
Amikejo
Amstel, River
Amsterdam
anchorites
Angevin family
Anglo-Dutch War, Fourth (1780–84)
Anna, Duchess of Prussia
Anne, Queen of England
Anne of Cleves
Anning, Mary
Anthon, Battle of (1430)
Anthony, Duke of Brabant
anti-Semitism
Antwerp
diamond industry
and the First World War
Musée des Beaux Arts
part of Belgium
part of France
part of the Spanish Netherlands
part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
Rubens’ house
and the Second World War
Siege of (1584–5)
Siege of (1832)
Siege of (1914)
and the ‘Spanish Fury’ (1576)
Antwerp Cathedral
Antwerp Zoo
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Aquitaine, Duchy of
Aragon, Kingdom of
Arbalesters (crossbowmen), Guild of
Ardennes
and the First World War
and the Second World War
Arles, Kingdom of
Armistice (1918)
Army of the Ocean Coasts
Arnulf, Holy Roman Emperor
Arquebusiers, Guild of
Arquebusiers’ Shooting Range, Dordrecht
Arras
Carrières Wellington
Cathedral
and the First World War
and the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71)
and the Second World War
Siege of (1414)
town hall
Vauban fortress
Arras, Battle of (1917)
Artois
and Dukes of Burgundy
Artois, Count of
Asterix books
Athys-sur-Orge, Treaty of (1305)
Augsburg, Peace of (1555)
Augustusburg Palace
Austrasia (‘eastern land’)
Austrian Netherlands
and Joseph II
part of France
part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
see also Spanish (Habsburg) Netherlands
Austrian Succession, War of the (1740–48)
Austro-Prussian War (1866)
automata
Avars
Baarle-Hertog
Baarle-Nassau
Bachelin, Auguste
Bad Godesberg
Bad Wimpfen
Baden, Grand Duchy of
and Bavaria
and France
and Prussia
Baden, Grand Dukes of
Baden-Baden
Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem
Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders
Balue, Jean de la, Cardinal
Bar, Duchy of
Barbarossa, Operation (1941)
barrier fortresses
Barrier Treaty (1709–15)
Bart, Jean
Barter, Richard
Bartholdi, Frédéric
Basle (Basel)
Battle of Dornach (1499)
Guild of Arquebusiers
printing
Reformation
Basle, Bishop of
Battle of Roncevalles (tapestry)
Baux-Orange family
Bavaria
and Austrian Netherlands
Electorate
and Rhenish Palatinate
Bavarian Palatinate
Bavo, St
Bayle, Pierre
Bazaine, General Achille
Beeldenstorm (‘statue storm’)
beguinage, institution of
Belfort
Belgian Revolution (1830)
Belgium
Congress of Vienna (1814–15)
and the Congo
and the First World War
fort-building
and France
German-speaking districts
independence
and Lotharingia
neutrality
and religion
and the Second World War
sovereignty
‘unredeemed cantons’
Belgium, United States of
Benedict, St
Benedict XVI, Pope
Bentheim, County of
Berg, Counts of
Berg, Duchy of
Berlin
Bern (Berne)
Cathedral
Bernard of Clairvaux, St
Berry, Duchy of
Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen
Beyazid I (‘the Thunderbolt’), Sultan
Bible, Dutch
Bismarck, Otto von
and France
and Russia
Black Death
Black Forest
Black Forest Towns
Black Legend of Spain
Blitz, the
Blomfield, Sir Reginald
Bohemia, Kingdom of
Boleyn, Anne
Bonn
Bosch, Hieronymus
Christ Carrying the Cross
Last Judgement
St John in the Wilderness
Sixth Day of Creation
The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Last Judgement
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
The Stone Operation
The Vagabond
Boso of Provence
Bouillon
Bouillon, Duchy of
Boulanger, Georges
Boulogne
Fort de l’Heurt
Smollett on
Upper Town
Boulogne, Counts of
Boulogne, County of
Bourbaki, General Charles-Denis
Bouvignes
Bouvines, Battle of (1214)
Brabant, Dukes of
Brabant, Imperial Duchy of
Spanish control
Brandenburg
Brandenburg, Elector of
Breda
Breda, Declaration of (1660)
Breda, Lords of
Breda, Siege of (1624)
Breskens
Brétigny, Treaty of (1
360)
Brill (Brielle)
Britain
and the American Revolutionary War
and Belgium
and the Dutch Republic
and the First World War
and France
and Joseph II
and the Second World War
and Spain
see also England
Britain, Battle of
British Isles
Browne, Sir Thomas
Urne-Buriall
Bruchsal
Brueghel the Elder, Jan
Brueghel the Elder, Pieter
The Beekeepers and the Birdnester
The Massacre of the Innocents
The Triumph of Death
Tower of Babel
Bruges (Brugge)
Church of Our Lady
Claws uprising (1302)
English wool trade
and famine
goldsmiths in
and Margaret of York
as port
printers in
and religion
U-boat base
Brugg
Brünnhilde
Bruno I, Duke of Lotharingia
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Charles, Duke of
Brussels
and the ‘Archdukes’
Dürer visits
and Mary of Hungary
part of France
part of Greater Germany
part of the Austrian Netherlands
Royal quarter and palace
Brussels Convention
Brussels Town Hall
Burckhardt, Jakob
Burgundian Circle
Burgundians
Burgundy
Burgundy, County of
see also Franche-Comté
Burgundy, Dukes of
and Louis XI
see also specific Dukes
Burgundy, Reichsgau of
Burroughes, James
Büsingen
Cabaret Voltaire
‘Cadaver Synod’ (897)
Calais
English base
Hogarth visits
First World War
and Louis XVIII
Second World War
Siege of (1346–7)
Smollett visits
Wars of the Roses
Callot, Jacques: Great Miseries of the War
Calvinism
Camperdown, Battle of (1797)
Campin, Robert
Cape Finisterre, Battle of (1805)
‘Carrières Wellington’ (quarries)
Carucci dalla Sommaja, Guglielmo Libri
Casement, Roger
Casimir, Johann, Count Palatine of Simmern
Cassel
Castre, Edouard
Catholic League (1576)
Catholicism
in Antwerp
art and iconoclasm
Centre Party (Germany)
Cologne War (1583–88)
Council of Trent (1543–63)
Counter-Reformation
cult of the Virgin Mary
and German nationalism
Hogarth on
