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    The Schwabenspiegel is a legal code, written in ca. 1275 by a Franciscan friar in Augsburg. It deals mainly with questions of land ownership and fiefdom...
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  • copy of the 13th century Schwabenspiegel law codex. first part, by Otmar Gossow 1462, foll. 1–100. 1r–94v: Schwabenspiegel 94v–100r Landfried König Rudolf...
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    the imperial city of Frankfurt after 1147, a custom recorded in the Schwabenspiegel code in about 1275. Originally all noblemen present could vote by unanimous...
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    preface to a new German translation of Don Quixote) 1838 (November): Der Schwabenspiegel ("The Mirror of Swabia", prose work attacking poets of the Swabian...
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    infanticide, and theft, could be punished with live burial. For example, the Schwabenspiegel, a law code from the 13th century, specified that the rape of a virgin...
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    like the Augsburger Sachsenspiegel, the Deutschenspiegel, and the Schwabenspiegel. The Duchy of Saxony covered most of what nowadays is the western part...
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    king leave Germany ("von teutchem lande"). In the Sachsenspiegel and Schwabenspiegel of the Medieval German law, the vassal princes were only required to...
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  • complete, it was really sexual consent that mattered. However, the German Schwabenspiegel allowed a woman over twenty-five to engage in sexual activity without...
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    an attack on Heinrich Heine, which Heine replied to in his work Der Schwabenspiegel (“The Swabian mirror,” 1838). Pfizer's poetry has been said[by whom...
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    brothers jewellery company. A document known as "The Swabian Mirror" or Schwabenspiegel (c. 1275) refers to the installation of the dukes of Carantania and...
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