Historic Inventions : 9781517624385

The free cities of medi val Germany were continually torn asunder by petty civil wars. The nobles, who despised commerce, and the burghers, who lived by it, were always fighting for the upper hand, and the laboring people sided now with one party, and now with the other. After each uprising the victors usually banished a great number of the defeated faction from the city. So it happened that John Gutenberg, a young man of good family, who had been born in Mainz about 1400, was outlawed from his home, and went with his wife Anna to live in the city of Strasburg, which was some sixty miles distant from Mainz.

Author: Rupert Sargent Holland

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Oct 13, 2015

Number of Pages: 122 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 151762438X

ISBN-13: 9781517624385