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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 152 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_159.jpg |
| Transcript | The Story of Nuret/r of them obtained in the service of the Emperor, or elsewhere, the dignity of knighthood. As early as the fifteenth century the 1 lies claimed the rights of knighthood and heraldry like territorial nobles. Probably the tourney held in 1446, on the occasion of a Patrician wedding, and represented in life-size stucco-work on the ceiling of the upper corridor in the Town Hall, b intended as a manifesto to this effect. At any rate it is recorded that this tourney vexed the nobles very sorely, "as they opined, it did not become the Nuremberg families to tilt in noble conflict or to indulge in such knightly pastime ; it was indeed generally held that this tourney had had no little influence in bringing about the great Margravian War which soon followed." In the n in 1485, in the Heidelberg and Heilbronn tournament regulations, the Town Patriciate's right of tourney was ally contested. Though we do not know how their prerogative arose, we certainly find that by 1521 the number of actual Patrician families was limited to fortv-three, whi the end of the century, only twentY-eight are left eligible for the Council. The] fanned a close and very exclusive corporation, clinging very tightlv to their fabricated privileges. "Anno icai," rn old statute, "it was declared and set down I Elders of the Town of Nuremberg which familie always from time immemorial ,: 1 dance in the Town Hall." We cannot deny that the short-sighted policy so often pursued by Nuremberg to her own uncfoil due to the narrow and selfish oligarchy thus fo But if we blame them for the decay we mi, them full meed of praise for the ripening of the prosperity of Nuremberg. The truth seems to be that the i52 |