By Thomas Robisheaux

Sixteenth-century Europeans introduced a fight for order with an depth and urgency that unearths no parallels in smooth ecu historical past. For the agricultural societies of Germany, the early 16th century introduced large upheavals that eroded the root of social, political, fiscal, and non secular lifestyles. during this probing learn of village lifestyles, in accordance with wealthy manuscript resources from the previous County of Hohenlohe, the writer seeks to appreciate how petty German princes, Lutheran pastors, and villagers struggled to create order out in their complicated international. He exhibits that the rules for social balance so obvious in Germany after 1648 have been laid within the forgotten period of German historical past, within the years after the early Reformation and prior to the Thirty Years' struggle.

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And in those places in the valley where the walls face to the south and are warmed by the sun, the temperature becomes noticeably warmer than on the plain above. The castles that come into view at several locations on or near every important road reminded travelers that they were far from the protection of South Germany's wealthy and powerful Renaissance cities. From these castles the powerful lords of the House of Hohenlohe dominated the countryside, controlled trade and travel, and ruled over the local population.

And Heilbronn. Because prices had to be high enough to bear the high costs of overland transportation, it seems likely that the Hohenlohe markets felt the weakening of demand for wine before other wine-producing regions. 17 In fact wine prices throughout Germany had entered a period of sharp fluctuation and decline by the early sixteenth century. This 14 16 17 Ibid. 70-1. 15 Nestle, "Witterung und Klima," 41-123. Ferdinand Oechsle, Beitrdge zur Geschichte des Bauernkrieges in den schtvdbisch-frdnkischen Grenzldndern (Heilbronn: Carl Drechsler, 1838), 258-9.

19 Their princely status was 18 19 For a discussion of these seigneurial initiatives in the fifteenth century see Peter Blickle, The Revolution of1525: The German Peasants' War from a New Perspective, trans. Thomas A. , and H. C. Erik Midelfort (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981), 35-57. The documentation for the late medieval period, critical in understanding the rise of the House of Hohenlohe into the ranks of imperial princes, is fragmentary and not yet thoroughly understood. There is no single study of the rise of the house in the late Middle Ages.

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