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Updated: June 6, 2025

On the other hand, many plain people, such as peasants and artisans, begrudged the numerous and burdensome ecclesiastical taxes, and an increasing number felt that they were not getting the worth of their money. There was universal complaint, particularly in the Germanies, that the people were exploited by the Roman Curia.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

On town-life in the Netherlands: Henri Pirenne, Belgian Democracy: its Early History, trans. by J. V. Saunders . On town-life in the Germanies: Helen Zimmern, The Hansa Towns in "Story of the Nations" Series; Karl von Hegel, Staedte und Gilden der germanischen Volker im Mittelalter, 2 vols. , the standard treatise in German. On French gilds: Martin St.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

The disasters of the Thirty Years' War, the jealousies and ambitions of the other German princes, the interested intervention of foreign powers, notably Sweden and France, made it brutally clear that Habsburg influence in the Germanies had already reached its highest pitch and that henceforth it would tend gradually to wane.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

Here, however, several elements combined to give it an importance far beyond its extent or population. It was the geographical center of the Germanies. It occupied a strategic position between Prussia and Austria. Its ruling family the Wettins were electors of the empire. At one time it seemed as if Saxony, rather than Brandenburg-Prussia, might become the dominant state among the Germanies.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

In the second half of the sixteenth century, the new architecture similarly entered Spain and received encouragement from Philip II. About the same time it manifested itself in the Netherlands and in the Germanies. Paul's cathedral in London, render the new architecture popular in England.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

I rather take the shape of the event and show how the ancient and civilized boundaries of Europe stood firm, though shaken, under the tempest; how that tempest might have ravaged no more than those outlying parts newly incorporated never sufficiently penetrated perhaps with the Faith and the proper habits of ordered men the outer Germanies and Scandinavia.

Hilaire Belloc - Europe and the Faith: "Sine auctoritate nulla vita"

In the time of Charles V there was no such Germany as this, but only what the French called "the Germanies"; i.e., two or three hundred states, which differed greatly from one another in size and character. One had a duke, another a count at its head, while some were ruled over by archbishops, bishops, or abbots.

James Harvey Robinson - An Introduction to the History of Western Europe

Theirs was not any dumb instinctive revolt like that of the Outer Germanies, the Outer Slavs, nor the neglected mountain valleys, against order and against clear thought, with all the hard consequences that clear thought brings.

Hilaire Belloc - Europe and the Faith: "Sine auctoritate nulla vita"

Communicated from France by the ardor of the revolutionary and Napoleonic soldiers, it evoked ready response not only in Poland, Holland, Portugal, Spain, England, and Russia, in which countries it was already existent, but also in the Germanies and in the Italian states, where centuries of petty strife and jealousy seemed to have blotted it out forever.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

The peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War in the Germanies, but it did not stop the bitter contest between France and Spain. Mazarin was determined to secure even greater territorial gains for his country, and, although Conde deserted to Spain, Turenne was more than a match for any commander whom the Spaniards could put in the field.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.