Historical Studies on the Feud in the Latter Middle Ages of Germany

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On the feuds between knight and citizen in the Middle Ages of Germany worked the violence of their emotions ; we must give attention to the mentality of medieval peoples who were highly sensible to status and honor.The appearance of the feuds was, on the other hand, surrounded with various factors ; this turns necessarily historians from view of isolation to view of the interrelation of knight and citizen.Studies on the peace and war of Medieval Japan are effective in inquiring into the European feuds : specially a point of view of monopolization of the right to the feud by the superior authorities. On the other side, we will have an eye not only upon similarities, but also differences between Europa and Japan.From the outside of cities the knight has strived with the citizen for taking part in the wealth which was accumulated in the cities of the Latter Meddle Ages ; the feuds were a lawful way for that purpose, in other words : a title, which has justified the use of violence by knights against citizens.On the other hand, we can hardly read from documents of the Latter Meddle Ages grounds and reasons that seem to have given the knight the title in favor of war ; this might demonstrate that he himself has held his feuds in opposition to the citizen to be doutful or lawless. A revolution of law and society comes soon : Consolidation of the power of the princes in their territories.