A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. So. — Costume o£ a king inthe thirteenth century. Stainedglass window in the clmir ofCologne Cathedral. (From ). Fig. 86. — Costume of a bishop in thethirteenth century. Painting, of about1200, in the Cathedral at Worms. (FromV. Hefner-Alteneck.) a l)lessing for the country, that, at the same moment when the pri\i-leges of the towns were withdrawn by imperial legislation, a restric-tion was imposed on the princes which rendered the arbitrary useof their power in regard to the cities
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. So. — Costume o£ a king inthe thirteenth century. Stainedglass window in the clmir ofCologne Cathedral. (From ). Fig. 86. — Costume of a bishop in thethirteenth century. Painting, of about1200, in the Cathedral at Worms. (FromV. Hefner-Alteneck.) a l)lessing for the country, that, at the same moment when the pri\i-leges of the towns were withdrawn by imperial legislation, a restric-tion was imposed on the princes which rendered the arbitrary useof their power in regard to the cities (Fig. 87) at least purposed abrogation of civic liberty was concurrent with theenhancement of the power of the provincial estates of the empire,in which the prince enjoyed, indeed, his riglits intact, but couldintroduce no iiniovation witlicmt the consent of the local diet. REVOLT AND OVEliTUHOW OF KING EENRY. 203 The young King Henry stood amid all these diverse and con-flicting influences. He was light-minded and unreliable, but auto-cratic, and, as it seems, already dallying with the perilous thought(if setting himself against his father. His deportment as regentwas far from satisfactory to Frederi
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