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| 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 68 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_078.jpg |
| Transcript | The Story of Nuremberg Hoods of Germany, had the qualities of a a rough justice and courage, they were, for the rest, wholly undeniable brigands. The love of destruction, disorder, and rapine, and the hatred of authority were their chief motives. They used their rightl as pretexts for violence and devoted themselves to brigandage as to a legitimate vocation and organised industry. Thev were, indeed, little better than leaders of bands of robbers, the wolves of civilisation. " One day," says Gcitz, "as 1 was on the point of making an attack, I perceived a pack of wolves descending on a flock of sheep. This incident seemed to me a good omen. \A going to begin the fight. A shepherd was near us. guarding his sheep, when, as if to give u-* the -i^nal. I threw rhem-tlves simultaneously on the Hock. I saw it and not gladly. 1 wished them success and ourselves too. living. 'Good luck, dear comrades, success to roe everywhere I' I took it as a very good augury that we had begun the attack together! " It was in 1495 that Maximilian, ever anxious to promote peace and order within the borders of his Empire, abrogated by edict the right of priva- under the penalty of the ban of the Empire—a penalty which involved the dooms of outlawry and excommunication. Thus the "last of the Knights" the death-blow to the chivalry of the Middle Ages. Hitherto every German noble holding fief dil from the Emperor had been on his own property a petty monarch, as it were, subordinate to the Imperial authority alone. These proud military barons,—an ever-increasing host of petty lords, since the rule of inheritance in Germany was division among the male heirs—esteemed above all other privileges the right of making war on each other, or on the towns, with no other ceremony than that of thn notice in writing (Fehdebrief). The evils and dangers of this privilege are clear, but they were left untouched bv 68 |