Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 72
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,… … 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…
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