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It is often said that Landsknecht soldiers were exempted from the "harsh sumptuary laws" of the Holy Roman Empire on account of their "brutish and short" lives. What were the sumptuary laws across the HRE in the late 15th and 16th centuries?
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Here is a good example of exactly this sentiment. It always got my inner critic going - what were the laws, and were they taken seriously in the first place?
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