State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany
Subtitle: The Knightly Feud in Franconia, 14401567 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780521561792
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Social classes; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; Control Of Land; Social Stratification; Social Science; History: World; Germany; Europe - General; History / Europe / General; Nobility--Germany--Franconia--History; Feudal law; Sociology - General; Franconia; History; Knights and knighthood; Nobility
First sentence: 'All Germany is a gang of bandits and, among the nobles, the more grasping the more glorious' - a Roman cardinal thus summed up the state of the German nation in the late Middle Ages.