Excerpt from Culturzustände des Deutschen Volkes: Seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters bis zum Beginn des Dreißigjährigen Krieges, Erstes und Zweites BuchEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1888, by Joseph Gummersbach of the firm of B. Herder, St. Louis, Mo., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.