Deutsche Geschichte in Quellen und Darstellung. Band 2: Spätmittelalter. 1250-1495

What we experience today as the "Middle Ages", cityscapes, churches, castles, is actually mostly the "Late Middle Ages", the tradition of a period that was by no means merely the echo of what had gone before, but by all means the beginning of something new: the rise of the cities took place in it, as did that of the House of Habsburg, the Swiss Confederation was formed, the first university was founded in Prague, the only council on German soil took place in Constance, and the basic law of the empire was codified in the "Golden Bull". The volume brings all of this to life in the usual mixture of authentic testimonies and commentary accompanying texts.