Excerpt from Sumptuary Law in Nurnberg: A Study in Paternal Government
Sumptuary regulation prevailed throughout Europe, in the legislation of all varieties of sovereign authority, from a very early date in the Middle Ages until the opening of the nineteenth century. Laws of the English parliament, ordinances of the French kings, decrees of the emperors and diets of Germany were issued from time to time with the intention of restricting the different classes of the population in their indulgence of what was thought to be luxury. But sumptuary legislation manifested itself in some of its most interesting forms in the little governments of the free cities of the medieval Roman Empire, particularly in Germany and Italy.
In the weakness of the national power, the German cities at an early date shook themselves free from the larger political units in which they were situated, and were able to establish a practical independence which extended to the management of their internal affairs, and beyond this, to many of their relationships with the outer world. Within the contracted circles fixed by their ponderous walls, homogeneous communities of a peculiar type developed.
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