Summer of Fire and Blood Quotes

“Alsatian wine can keep for up to sixty years’. Franconia comprised the small towns around Würzburg, situated on ‘very fertile soil’ and a major wine-growing region, with three major forests, the Spessart, the Steigerwald, and the Odenwald. Eastwards lay Meissen, rich in metals, whose terrain produced ‘much fine beer’ but no wine, while Thuringia possessed a large forest, ‘a very fertile soil, rich sowing, white bread and it speaks Saxon’. Saxony itself, he observed, ‘is poor in wine, has a lot of fruit, [and is] rich in beer’,”
― Lyndal Roper, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War