. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Gauerbi-nate or Gauerbschqften, by virtue of which the petty nobility formed familypacts for transmitting their fiefs by indirect line when the direct line shouldfail, and for reconstructing or repairing their castles out of a common fund ;and that of the Teutonic Hanse, the league of the prince-archbishops andelectors with sixty towns upon the Rhine. Eodolph of Hapsburg (Fig. 30),a monarch as resolute as he was able, put a stop to proceedings which werefull of danger to the imperial authority, compelled his
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Gauerbi-nate or Gauerbschqften, by virtue of which the petty nobility formed familypacts for transmitting their fiefs by indirect line when the direct line shouldfail, and for reconstructing or repairing their castles out of a common fund ;and that of the Teutonic Hanse, the league of the prince-archbishops andelectors with sixty towns upon the Rhine. Eodolph of Hapsburg (Fig. 30),a monarch as resolute as he was able, put a stop to proceedings which werefull of danger to the imperial authority, compelled his vassals to do himhomage, and razed to the ground seventy fortresses whose feudal brigandage FEUDALISM. 35 had scattered desolation and ruin ; but, after his death, the usurpation of thesuzerain lords began afresh, and the Bulk cV Or, which was the basis of publicright in Germany, confirmed the downfall of the imperial suzerainty (1378). In France, on the other hand, as each convocation of the States-Generalwas attended with the creation or levying of some new tax, the third estate. mm i Fig. 30.—Equestrian Stone Statue of Rodolph of Hapsburg, Emperor of Germany, by Erwin deSteinbach, placed above the Grand Portal of Strasburg Cathedral (Thirteenth Century). attempted to exact all the more from royalty in proportion as it gratified thelatters pecuniary demands, claiming to have a voice in the question of peaceor war, to direct the financial affairs of the kingdom, to be convoked everyyear, and to share, with the two other orders, the weight of the chargesthe profit of which ought to be shared by all. The feudal nobility resistedthe exorbitant pretensions of the third estate, but when they saw this classforming a secret alliance with the clergy, and setting on foot a formidable 3& FEUDALISM.
Size: 1342px × 1862px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., booksubjectcostume, booksubjectmiddleages, booksubjectmilitaryar
