Sources

  1. Rounds in the Sick Ward (c. 1680)

  2. Introduction of the Excise Tax in the Towns of Brandenburg (April 15, 1667)

  3. Philipp Wilhelm von Hörnigk, “Austria Supreme, If It so Wishes” (1684)

  4. Edict Protecting the Brandenburg Woolens Industry (March 30, 1687)

  5. The Barber-Surgeon (1698)

  6. The Cloth Maker (1698)

  7. The Miner (1698)

  8. Prussian “Soldier King” Frederick William I Instructs his Officials on Peasant Colonization in East Prussia (July 2, 1718)

  9. Edict: A Pound of Wool per Week (June 14, 1723)

  10. Paul Troger, Two Beggars with their Dog (c. 1728)

  11. The Banker (c. 1730)

  12. Imperial Trade Ordinance [Reichshandwerksordnung] (August 16, 1731)

  13. Edict Protecting Prussian Wool Manufacturers: No Silk Skirts or Camisoles (November 6, 1731)

  14. A Female Beggar (18th century)

  15. Reaping, Hauling, and Threshing Grain (c. 1740)

  16. A Tenant Receives a Lease Contract (1750)

  17. The Care and Storage of Agricultural Tools (1750)

  18. Horse- and Ox-Drawn Plows (1750)

  19. Johann Wilhelm Meil, A Woodcutter Carrying His Axe (18th century)

  20. Manufacturing Silk (1750)

  21. Masons and Bricklayers (c. 1750)

  22. Frederick II (“the Great”), Memorandum to the Administration of Electoral Brandenburg on the Landlord-Peasant Relationship (1755)

  23. Peddling Copperplate Engravings (1766)

  24. Emperor Joseph II’s Patent on Serfdom [Leibeigenschaft] (November 1, 1781)

  25. Emperor Joseph II’s “Buying-In” Patent (November 1, 1781)

  26. Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden, Proclamation of the Abolition of Serfdom in Baden (July 23, 1783)

  27. The Coffee Tax (1784)

  28. The Coffee “Sniffers,” c. 1780 (1892)

  29. The Tailor (1788)

  30. Emperor Joseph II’s Taxation and Urbarial Patent (1789)

  31. The Legal Status of Subject Villagers in Prussia, as reflected in the General Law Code for the Prussian States (1794)

  32. Decree on the Abolition of Personal Serfdom in Schleswig-Holstein (December 19, 1804)

  33. The Prussian “October Edict” of 1807 (October 9, 1807)

  34. The Prussian “October Edict” of 1807 (1807)

  35. Anton Spreng, A Peasant Eating (19th century)

  36. Jérôme [Hieronymus] Napoleon, King of Westphalia, Decree on the Abolition of Personal Serfdom in the French Satellite Kingdom of Westphalia (January 23, 1808)

  37. The Prussian Regulation Edict of 1811 (September 14, 1811)

  38. The Prussian Declaration of 1816, modifying the Regulation Edict of 1811 (May 29, 1816)