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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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    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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    A 1385 copy of the Sachsenspiegel, a German legal code, written on parchment with straps and clasps on the binding...
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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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     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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    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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    Depiction of a judicial combat in the Dresden codex of the Sachsenspiegel (early to mid-14th century), illustrating the provision that the two combatants...
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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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    latent tension between the traditional regional laws and Roman law. The Sachsenspiegel of 1230 recognizes the judicial duel as an important function to establish...
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    1220 and 1230, a Saxon administrator, Eike von Repgow, composed the Sachsenspiegel, which became the supreme law used in parts of Germany as late as 1900...
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    needed] Written in Middle High German, it draws on the early 13th century Sachsenspiegel, and is immediately dependent on the Deutschenspiegel [de] code.[citation...
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    Brandenburg bringing a bowl of warm water, as a valet. Below, the new king in front of the great men of the empire (Heidelberg Sachsenspiegel, around 1300)....
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    being the cause of the cruel treatment of witches, when we see in the Sachsenspiegel that burning alive was already the legal punishment for a witch. All...
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  • Rügerin, an edition of Eike of Repgow's compendium of customary law, the Sachsenspiegel, produced in Augsburg. 1485 – The play Elckerlijc wins first prize in...
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    Judicial combat with sword and shield depicted in the Dresden ms. of the Sachsenspiegel, 14th century. Melee combat between knights on horseback (troops of...
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  • Angliae for England, the Coutume de Paris for the city of Paris, the Sachsenspiegel for northern Germany, and the many fueros of Spain. In international...
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    A scene from the Sachsenspiegel shows a lokator (in hat) during the German Ostsiedlung around 1300...
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  • promote its use in literary and scientific works instead of latin. Sachsenspiegel, c. 1220, first legal document written in German rather than Latin Pleading...
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    some talk shows (selection): 1998: MDR Sachsenspiegel 2005: Wir in Bayern 2005: Zibb 2013: MDR Sachsenspiegel 2018: Riverboat 2019: Riverboat 2020: Riverboat...
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    Harz a restricted imperial forest or Reichsbannwald. The Saxon Mirror (Sachsenspiegel), the oldest German law book (Rechtsbuch), probably published around...
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    ransoming poor Christians enslaved by Muslims. ~1220 Holy Roman Empire The Sachsenspiegel, the most influential German code of law from the Middle Ages, condemns...
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    Leather closure: Sachsenspiegel (hand written in 1385, Duisburg city library)...
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    Klenkok (Klenke) (d. 1374), author of the Decadicon, an attack on the Sachsenspiegel. Simon of Cremona (d. 1390), a well-known preacher. Johann Hiltalinger...
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    of Repgow codified it as an emanation of feudal law recorded in his Sachsenspiegel, where the lay princes formed the third level or Heerschild in the feudal...
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    Annolied Jans der Enikel's Weltchronik and Fürstenbuch Kaiserchronik Law Sachsenspiegel High German consonant shift Matthias Lexer Keller 1978, p. 236. Lindgren...
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    whether such a system even lasted into the High Middle Ages with the Sachsenspiegel. Traditionally, the Leges have been understood as only applying to one...
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    the conflict about the Sachsenspiegel law book he handed the Decadicon - a written attack by Johannes Klenkok on the Sachsenspiegel - to Pope Gregory XI...
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