... period 1520-1540 in response to the problems caused by several consecutive harvest failures (1527-34) and to the fears raised by frequent and often widespread eruptions of both urban and rural popular unrest, epitomized by the German Peasants' War of 1524-5. They banned begging, recognised deserving and indigenous and gave them poor boxes. Schemes increased at times of death to limit ... grain hoarding and general stealing. Following on from this, for the early modern city to develop it needed a change in organisation and forms of political action allowed townspeople to develop and impr...

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