wittenweiler

Updated: May 2, 2025

The condition of the peasant up to the beginning of the sixteenth century that is to say, up to the time when it began to so rapidly change for the worse may be gathered from what we are told by contemporary writers, such as Wimpfeling, Sebastian Brandt, Wittenweiler, the satires in the Nürnberger Fastnachtspielen, and numberless other sources, as also from the sumptuary laws of the end of the fifteenth century.

Ernest Belfort Bax - German Culture Past and Present