He was a history teacher, writer and historian with a passion for his region. Philippe Stachowski died in March 2020 but he had time to move forward in his ultimate enterprise: the exploration of the Franco-Luxembourg space during the Middle Ages. The subject was ambitious but exhilarating as this little piece of central Europe has played a major role in great history.
The result is a 270-page book, soberly titled Lorraine-Luxembourg in the Middle Ages , prefaced by Luxembourg Minister Sam Tanson and edited by Gérard Klopp. Jean-Jacques Sitek, another Moselle historian, and archaeologist Jean-Marie Blaising, lent a hand to complete the work and put together some of the necessary documentation as well as the illustrations, which are superb.
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Many anecdotes
This book is the result of a real investigative work, which tells the common destiny of the two current border regions. Charlemagne is one of the essential characters and this brings us back to Thionville which becomes, over the pages, the epicenter of a territory where the foundations of European international policy are laid.
The work, although voluminous, is lightened by a quantity of anecdotes and information on the daily life of the inhabitants. Banquets, clothing, rural architecture, fairs and markets, tournaments and family vendettas: we are at the heart of the matter.
The book, published last fall, will be the subject of a public presentation on Friday, February 25 at 4 p.m., at Puzzle.
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