Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/325/en

On the other side we see how, above all in Central Europe, the peasants struggled for their freedom against the hegemony of Church and aristocracy and sought to carry their cultural achievements across the threshold into the modern era. From the village communities that had set the tone in the early Middle Ages, cities crystallized out here and there from the ninth and tenth century onward. In these there unfolded — with the bourgeoisie, with the entry of Roman law, and from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries onward with the founding of universities — a cultural life emancipated from nature, different from the one that lived on creatively in the village communities as