Wein, Weiber, Waffen
In 1601, an artisan in Nördlingen named Hans Schwarz was arrested by the local council because of a weapons violation. The problem was not that Schwarz had kept or used an illicit weapon; rather, his crime was that he did not own a sword. Schwarz was only one of a number of local householders arrested in that year for failing to keep sufficient stores of arms and armor in their homes. The men were given 14 days to “honorably arm themselves.”1 In other towns, presentation of proper arms was a requirement for marriage.2 Throughout Germany during the early modern period, men who failed to keep and bear arms faced fines, imprisonment, banishment, and loss of citizenship.
Из Tlusty, B. A. (2011). The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms.
Из Tlusty, B. A. (2011). The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms.
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