The Hohenstaufen rulers increasingly lent land to ministerialia, formerly non-free service men, whom Frederick hoped would be more reliable than dukes. Initially used mainly for war services, this new class of people would form the basis for the later knights, another basis of imperial power. A further important constitutional move at Roncaglia was the establishment of a new peace mechanism for the entire Empire, the Landfrieden, which attempted to abolish private feuds, between the many dukes and beyond, and to tie the Emperor's subordinates to a legal system of jurisdiction and public prosecution of criminal acts — a predecessor of the modern concept of "rule of law." Another new concept of the time was the systematic foundation of new cities, both by the Emperor and the local dukes. These were partly caused by the explosion in population, but they also concentrated economic power at strategic locations, while formerly cities had only existed in the form of old Roman foundations or older bishoprics. Cities that were founded in the 12th century include Freiburg, possibly the economic model for many later cities, and Munich.
Golden Bull of 1356
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Golden Bull of 1356 | |
The golden seal that earned the decree the name
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Created | January 10, 1356 (chapters 1-23); December 25, 1356 (chapters 24-31) |
Location | Austrian State Archives, Vienna (Bohemian and Mainz editions); Academic library of the Darmstadt University of Technology (Cologne edition); Bavarian State Archives, Munich (Electorate of the Palatinate edition and Nuremberg copy); Baden-Württemberg Main State Archives, Stuttgart (Trier edition); Frankfurt Institute for the History of the City (copy) |
Author(s) | Delegates of the Imperial Diet held in Nuremberg and Metz |
Purpose | Franchise of the seven Prince-electors voting for the King of the Romans |
In June 2013 the Golden Bull was included in the UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.[1]
Why Were So Many Austrians Hitler-Friendly?
Today I stood on Vienna’s Heroes Square where, in 1938, more than 200,000 tearfully happy Austrians gathered before Adolf Hitler. The Nazi dictator stood on the palace balcony and stated, “In front of German history, I declare my former homeland now a part of the Third Reich. One of the pearls of the Third Reich will be Vienna.” From that day on, Austrians were forbidden to say the word “Austria.”Americans often wonder how Austria could so eagerly embrace Hitler and the Anschluss (the notion that Austria was meant to be unified with Germany anyway). Let me hazard an explanation: Imagine post-WWI Austria. One of the mightiest empires on earth started — and lost — a great war. In a few bloody years, it went from being a grand empire of 55 million people to a relatively insignificant landlocked state of six million that was required to be nonaligned. The capital, Vienna, was left with little to rule, and now its population comprised a third of the country’s. With the economic crisis we know as the Great Depression (which swept the Nazis to power in Germany in 1933), Austria also got a fascist government complete with a dictator named Engelbert Dollfuss. He was as right-wing and anti-Semitic as the tyrant ruling Germany, but he was pro-Roman Catholic Church, pro-Habsburg, and anti-Nazi. When an Austrian Nazi assassinated Dollfuss in 1934, it was easy for the German Nazis to take over four years later. By that point, the Austrian fascists had already put down the leftists. The German Nazis just took over their Austrian counterparts’ file cabinets. And, Hitler promised greatness again…and jobs — something that has driven voters to support crazy political notions to this day.
Humans have been caged, their mouths have been made to eat and speak only about tweets and never algorithms, hands work for only the killers that mass murder the species Homo Sapiens. Call this earth insanity criminal enterprising as a civilization. In a word:
ReplyDeleteHumans that have no Self Love, but rather the inner is a blinding Self Loathing and the toxic shame won't allow the Loathing of Self to do other than lie, cheat, steal and kill, SAME SPECIES, to cure the criminal insanity of Self Loathing, then the obvious repeat of history doesn't stop.
ReplyDeleteHoly Ghost or Holy Spirit BUT not the Papal Bullshit
ReplyDeleteWonder whether or not infinity is about the bullshitters gazing at their own BS forever and ever and ever
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