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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 77 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_087.jpg |
| Transcript | Nuremberg and the Reformation and his sentence of excommunication was practically ignored. Other towns followed the example of Kurei . and imitated her Lutheran services. IB while the dislike of the people for monasteries and nunneries broke out more vehemently. The air was full of satires and cartoons directed against nuns and monks. Hans Sachs was not silent on this point. At last the Council ordered these institutions to be handed over to the guidance of the Luther ers. Charitas Pirkheinn r, the virtuous and accomplished abbess ot the Klaniklostery friend and correspondent of Durer and sister of Willibald, has left us in her memoirs a touching account of the manner in which she was torn from her b on vent, over which no breath of scandal had ever passed, and which contained many of the daughters of the best families in Nuremberg. These memoirs are well worth looking at by those who care to see the other side of the question, and to make the acquaintance of a beautiful and fascinating character. Unfortunately we have no s] in this little book to deal with them h Shortlv after this an organised discussion between the rcpn of the old and new orders of re ligious belief was held before the Council. One by one, twelve points of doctrine were put to the heads of the Lutheran, Carmelite, Augustin and Dominican bodies, and each answi his kind. The Catholic party finally claimed that the decision between them should be referred to the l \ but Osil der, declaring that God's word was the o- -ion, wound up the discussion with a bold and eloquent h, ami called upon the Council for an immed decision. The Couin \ ote for the Luth eran ease, and thus formally threw in their lot with the Reformation* The following year saw a whole series ot decrees from the Council carrying out Lutheran |