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    The Sachsenspiegel (German: [ˈzaksn̩ˌʃpiːɡl̩] ; Middle Low German: Sassen Speyghel; modern Low German: Sassenspegel; all literally "Saxon Mirror") is one...
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  • Sachsenspiegel (German: [ˈzaksn̩ˌʃpiːɡl̩] ; literally "Saxon Mirror") is a news programme on MDR Fernsehen, the regional television station of the German...
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    are shaven, but the hair is surely short. The clearest proof are the Sachsenspiegel illustrations - all Wends in the illustrations (in contrast with the...
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    punishment" for highwaymen and street thieves, and was set out in the Sachsenspiegel for murder, and arson that resulted in fatalities. Those convicted as...
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    A 1385 copy of the Sachsenspiegel, a German legal code, written on parchment with straps and clasps on the binding...
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    Middle Ages and has been documented in writing since about 1225/34 (Sachsenspiegel). During the Hanseatic period (from about 1300 to about 1600), Middle...
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     1180 – c. 1233) was a medieval German administrator who compiled the Sachsenspiegel code of law in the 13th century. Little is known about Eike of Repgow...
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    courtly romances such as Parzival and Tristan. Also noteworthy is the Sachsenspiegel, the first book of laws written in Middle Low German (c. 1220). The...
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    revised 1580), which served as the basis for the Napoleonic Code, and the Sachsenspiegel (c. 1220) of the bishoprics of Magdeburg and Halberstadt which was used...
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    murder by a minor and the subsequent paying of wergild, in Heidelberger Sachsenspiegel Cgm 165 fol. 11r. This is one of the only images of wergild payment...
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