Medievalists.net » Metz http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Grant Atour of Metz (1405): denouncing the past, shaping the future http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/29/grant-atour-metz-1405-denouncing-past-shaping-future/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/29/grant-atour-metz-1405-denouncing-past-shaping-future/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:02:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52948 In the late middle ages, the Imperial free city of Metz is firmly in the hands of the patricians: they control its entire government through associations called paraiges – and as the wealth of the city has been relying heavily on their rural possessions since the decline of the commercial role of the city, their leadership is not seriously at risk.

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