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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 91 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_100.jpg |
| Transcript | Nuremberg and the Reformation same rich style, and upstairs a beautifully panelled room. The policy of the town during this period was purely defcn !\<. The wars with the Markgraf had cost Nuremberg dear, and she now set herself to recover from their disastrous effects. Her history for the r few years is a record of peace and of commercial and architectural activ great new building of the Rathaus was begun in the year 1622 by Jakob Wolff, the younger. The outbreak of the Thirt; A'ar prevented it fin really completed. With regard to religious matters peace was preserved outwardly. Whilst the struggles between the Catholics and Protestants and Lut I :s and various other sects were being stubbornly fought out elsewhere, the Nuremberg Council was content to forbid the propagation of false doctrines by word or writing. C* regioy ejus religio. They rejected the mformal drawn up tM >urg and directed against Melanchthon and his folio* '«nd in 1573 they, in conjunction with the Markgraf, published a sort of Confession of Faith, consisting of various Lutheran and other theological works, which \ the clergy and accepted as a sort of rule for the churches. It was called the Nuremberg Konkordienbuch—Libri Normales —and every priest was required to swear to conform to it. Perhaps (me of the most important occurrences for Nuremberg, in connection with these theological mat: was the founding of the Ur dorf (south west of Nuremberg). Joachim I , we are told, suggested to Joachim Hall Uendent of the Nuremberg schools, that he should form a new school on the pattern ot the monastic schools in Sax< at which youths were prepared for tlu- I school was to be outside the town, so that there should |