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Identifier: medivalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, the part west of theRhone and the INIeuse, one day to become France; and toLothair, the narrow central strip between these, stretching acrossEurope from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, and includingthe rich lands of the lower Rhine, the valley of the Rhone, andItaly. To Lothair also was given the imperial title. This treaty is celebrated, not only because it was the first greattreaty among the European states but also on account of itsmarking the divergence from one another, and in some sense theorigin, of two of the great nations of modern Europe,—TeutonicGermany and Romanic France. As shown by the celebratedbilingual oath of Strassburg,^ there had by this time grown up 1 This was an oath of friendship and mutual fidelity taken by Lewis and Charlesjust before the Treaty of Verdun (in 842). The text of the oath has been preservedboth in the old German speech and in the new-forming Romance language. It isinteresting as affording the oldest existing specimens of these languages.
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>< 79) THE EMPIRE AND OTTO THE GREAT 67 in Gaul, through the mixture of the provincial Latin with Ger-man elements, a new speech, which was to grow into the Frenchtongue,—the firstborn of the Romance languages.^ 79. Renewal of the Empire by Otto the Great (962). Inthe division of the dominions of Charlemagne, the imperial title, aswe have just seen, went to Lothair. The title, however, meantscarcely anything, carrying with it little or no real authority.Matters ran on thus for more than a century, the empty honorof the title sometimes being enjoyed by the kings of Italy, andagain by those of the Eastern Franks. But with the accession of Otto I to the throne of Germanyin the year 936, there appeared among the princes of Europea second Charlemagne. Besides being king of Germany, hebecame, through interference on request in the affairs of Italy,king of that country also. Furthermore, he wrested large tractsof land from the Slavs, and forced the Danes, Poles, and Hunga-rians to ac

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