Pictures of German Life in the XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I.
CHAPTER XI.
German Nobility In The Sixteenth Century (1500)--False position in the nation--Unproductiveness--Gradual change--Character of Goetz von Berlichingen--Extract from his Autobiography--Character of Schaertlin--Narrative Of Schaertlin--Hans von Schweinichen and Duke Heinrich von Liegnitz--Narrative Of Schweinichen--Transition to modern life