History of the Germanic Empire, Volumen1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 |
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Página 75 - ... nocte volant puerosque petunt nutricis egentes et vitiant cunis corpora rapta suis. carpere dicuntur lactentia viscera rostris et plenum poto sanguine guttur habent.
Página 274 - ... of the free cities, in 1356. It determined who should be the electors of the Emperor and how they should exercise their electoral functions. It was once and for all settled that the electors should be the following seven : the Archbishop of Mainz, the Archbishop of Trier, the Archbishop of Cologne, the king of Bohemia, the Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Duke of Saxony (Wittenberg), and the Markgraf of Brandenburg.
Página 218 - THIRTEENTH CENTURY [1125-1273 AD] proscription of Henry the Lion was the dismemberment of the great duchies of Saxony and Bavaria. This called into existence a number of feudatories, who, with domains from portions of those great fiefs, assumed the designation of princes of the empire, and obtained jurisdictions independent of the electors and of each other. Among these were the dukes of Austria, Styria, and Pomerania; the markgraf of Meissen; the landgraf of Meiningen; and the counts of Mecklenburg...
Página 224 - By the first two classes all the offices of magistracy were filled, even after the enfranchisement of the last by Henry V. But as the last class was by far the most numerous; as their establishment into corporations, subject to their heads, gave them organisation, union, and strength, they began to complain of the wall of separation between them. That wall was demolished, not, indeed, at once, but by degrees; the burgesses gained privilege after privilege, access to the highest municipal dignities,...
Página 56 - Turn in ipso concilio, vel principum aliquis vel pater vel propinquus scuto frameaque juvenem ornant : haec apud illos toga, hie primus juventae honos : ante hoc domus pars videntur, mox reipublicae.
Página 224 - ... as their establishment into corporations, subject to their heads, gave them organisation, union, and strength, they began to complain of the wall of separation between them. That wall was demolished, not, indeed, at once, but by degrees ; the burgesses gained privilege after privilege, access to the highest municipal dignities, until marriages between their daughters and the nobles were no longer stigmatised as ill-assorted or unequal. The number of imperial cities, — of those which, in accordance...
Página 228 - AD] CONDITION OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Descending in the social chain we come to the cultivators of the ground, the serfs or peasantry, whose condition, though sufficiently onerous, was yet considerably ameliorated. Corporeal servitude had ceased throughout a great part of the empire. This was, doubtless, owing to a variety of causes, of which many are apt to elude our observation. Assuredly one of these was not the increased humanity of the lords: the German mind has not been favourable to abstract...
Página 228 - ... causes, of which many are apt to elude our observation. Assuredly one of these was not the increased humanity of the lords: the German mind has not been favourable to abstract notions of right, whenever that right has opposed aristocratic preponderancy. In the view of a German noble, liberty meant no more than an emancipation from the despotism of the territorial princes; in that of citizen, exemption from the jurisdiction of emperor or prince; in that of a prince, perfect independence of the...
Página 213 - Cologne, and Treves; the latter, the dukes of Franconia, Bavaria, Saxony and Swabia. It is certain that Conrad IV was elected by these dignitaries, and that the rest of the princes had no other privilege than that of consenting — of suffrage not one word is said. A fifth secular prince is...
Página 75 - And this of Rotharius, Lex. Roth., 379 : " Nullus praesumat aldiam alienam aut ancillam quasi strigam occidere, quod Christianis mentibus nullatenus est credendum nee possibile est, ut hominem mulier vivum intrinsecus possit comedere.