burgherdom

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One thing only has struck sound judgments as being somewhat like the struggle of burgherdom in the middle ages against the feudal aristocracy, and that is the struggle between the plebeians and patricians at Rome.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert

And yet it is in France that the people of the communes, the burgherdom, reached the most complete and most powerful development, and ended by acquiring the most decided preponderance in the general social structure.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert

It was the struggle, sometimes sullen, sometimes violent, of feudal lordship against municipal burgherdom.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert

Nowhere has burgherdom had so wide and so productive a career as that which fell to its lot in France.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert

It was especially in the towns administered in the king's name and by his provosts that there was a development of this spirit, which has long been the predominant characteristic of French burgherdom.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert