. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. 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
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. 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& Fig. 31.—Maximilian of Austria, with Mary of Burgundy, his wife, only daughter of Charles theBold, and their young son Philip, afterwards King of Castile.— Abridged Chronicles ofBurgundy, Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, in the Library of M. Ambroise-FirminDidot. league, the password of which was the destruction of the castles and theannihilation of the nobles, they hesitated, and did nothing until the horrible FEUDALISM. 37 excesses committed by the league in the country districts had given thefeudal reaction a character of legality. In 1383, after the battle of Rose-becque, which inflicted a heavy blow upon the communal cause in Flandersand in France, it seemed as if the power of suzerainty was about to reviveonce more. Froissart, in his Chronicles, rejoiced at this fact, because hebelieved that social order was threatened with utter ruin (see his Chronicles,year 1383) ; but French chivalry succumbed in its turn at Agincourt beneaththe onslaught of the English archers. This
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