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Wagner's music, there float, a massive diadem, the towers and parapets and banners of Nuremberg the imperial free city, monument of a victorious burgherdom, of civic virtue that on the ruins of feudalism constructed its own world, and demonstrated to all times its dignity and sobriety and industry, its solid worth.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

The groans of an oppressed peasantry, the curses of an overtaxed burgherdom, could not pierce through the chorus of merriment.

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

Nowhere has burgherdom had so wide and so productive a career as that which fell to its lot in France.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830

It was the struggle, sometimes sullen, sometimes violent, of feudal lordship against municipal burgherdom.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830

There is nothing in all this like that slow, obscure, heart-breaking travail of modern burgherdom escaping, full hardly, from the midst of slavery or a condition approximating to slavery, and spending centuries, not in disputing political power, but in winning its own civil existence.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830

It was especially in the towns administered in the king's name and by his provosts that there was a development of this spirit, which has long been the predominant characteristic of French burgherdom.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830

And yet it is in France that the people of the communes, the burgherdom, reached the most complete and most powerful development, and ended by acquiring the most decided preponderance in the general social structure.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830

It was through burghers admitted into the king's service and acting as administrators or judges in his name that communal independence and charters were often attacked and abolished; but at the same time they fortified and elevated burgherdom, they caused it to acquire from day to day more wealth, more credit, more importance and power in the internal and external affairs of the state.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830

Had the third estate been centred entirely in the communes at strife with their lords, had the fate of burgherdom in France depended on the communal liberties won in that strife, we should see, at the end of the thirteenth century, that element of French society in a state of feebleness and decay.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830

Now the majority amongst them were burghers, and their number and their power were turned to the advantage of burgherdom, and led day by day to its further extension and importance.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830