STRASBOURG FRANCE SILVER/BL 1 KREUZER____Medieval European Power____FLEUR-DE-LIS

Description

21R14
FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL SILVER / BILLON KREUZER OF MEDIEVAL STRABOURG FRANCE FROM 1350 - 1550 AD .
MEDIEVAL STRASBOURG EVENTS
1st City to print weekly journal after the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg (Gutenberg lived in Strasbourg for 10 years)
400 residents experienced the dancing plague which lasted for weeks
Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation, which the city embraced.
THE SIZE IS 16.8 MM AND 0.61 GRAMS.
MB# 40, Bd# 1335, E&L# 398
OBVERSE – Large fleur-de-lis. Lettering: +GLA (annulet) In EXCEL (annulet) DO
REVERSE – Large fleur-de-lis. Lettering: +MOnETA ARGEn
MEDIEVAL STRASBOURG
The city of Strasbourg really blossomed when the Strasbourg Cathedral de Notre-Dame was built between the 11th and 15th centuries.
After the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440 (Gutenberg developed the idea of the printing press while in Strabourg), the first printing offices were established around 1460 in Strasbourg. Subsequently, the first modern newspaper was published in Strasbourg in 1605, when Johann Carolus received the permission by the City of Strasbourg to print and distribute a weekly journal written in German by reporters from several central European cities. Johannes Gutenberg worked in Strasbourg for ten years – the city developed into an important cultural center of inter-regional stature in the 15th century.
In July 1518, an incident known as the dancing plague of 1518 struck residents of Strasbourg. Around 400 people were afflicted with dancing mania and danced constantly for weeks, most of them eventually dying from heart attack, stroke or exhaustion.
In 1519, the theses of Martin Luther were attached to the door of the cathedral, and the directors of the city, especially Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck welcomed the change. In the 1520s during the Protestant Reformation, the city embraced the religious teachings of Martin Luther.
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