State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany
Subtitle: The Knightly Feud in Franconia, 14401567 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780521522656
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; History - General History; History; History: World; Germany; Europe - General; Genealogy; History / Europe / General; Nobility--Germany--Franconia--History; Reference : Genealogy
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.