Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
Date | 1899 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
Title | Page 43 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_055.jpg |
Transcript | Development of Nuremberg spoken, succeeded his hen he was but seventeen. IIall -idiot, half-maniac, addicted to drunkenness anil huntin; . s not the man to order in an fallen into a state of chaos. He was on worst .md the least fictorions on record. He would attend to nothing in the Reich, "the Prague white bee: Is of various complexions being much preferable," as he was heard to say. The result his reign was a period of feuds, the golden era of free or robber knights. Club-law, or Faustrecht, as it was called—the right of i warfare—was the order of the day. The history' of Nuremberg resolves itself into the police-news of the period, the record of the sallies and outrages of such knights as »ngen, whose head quarters were .; miles off, and who was the I BerBchtngen of the nth century. The old castles which the •r sees from time to time on the banks of the Rhine, or on the ravines and large brooks which rlow in' then no picturesque ruins, rendered im by the about their form , but constituted the real and apparently imprepn.ible strongholds of this robber- chivah v. i of the castle, near the ! will show you to this day two h . which are said to be the by the hoofs ot n (or Bppelein) I ilingen's gallant steed. For this freebooter, IkV long been admired, and even I length captured by i iberg bu: soldie: in the castle, he pined in the dungeon until the d 43 |