Lining the streets inside the city's gates, clustered in its center, and thinly scattered among its back quarters were Augsburg's taverns and drinking rooms. Th
The history of the European Reformation is intimately bound-up with the development of printing. With the ability of the printed word to distribute new ideas, t
For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms, with urban citizenry representing the armed pow