Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/213/en

On the other side we see how — above all in Central Europe — the peasants struggled for their freedom against the hegemony of Church and nobility, and sought to carry their cultural achievements across the threshold into the modern era. Out of the village communities that had set the tone in the early Middle Ages, cities crystallised here and there from the ninth and tenth centuries onward. Within these, a cultural life emancipated from nature unfolded alongside the rising bourgeoisie, with the entry of Roman law, and from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries onward with the founding of universities — a cultural life different from that which lived on in the village communities as creative

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