Breisach

And after communion that morning she died. 50 When Adelheit of Breisach lay near death, Anna of Munzingen says that this meant that "she lay on the straw mattress and the boards were beaten."

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

The Adelhausen nuns read Psalm 24 while Adelheit of Breisach died.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

It was there that they accused Adelheit of Breisach of heresy. 74 The nuns of Töss sometimes flagellated themselves in front of the monastery's chapterhouse. 75

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

Born near the French border in Breisach, Germany, on January 3, 1902, Helen (Kahn) Weil was the middle child of Nathan Kahn, a leather salesman, and Bertha (Levi).

Helen Weil. 2009

“What bold men are ye, sirs, who are here in arms before the fortress of Breisach, appertaining in right and seignorie to the thrice noble Duke of Burgundy and Lorraine, and garrisoned for his cause and interest by the excellent Sir Archibald, Lord of Hagenbach, Knight of the most Holy Roman Empire?”

Anne of Geierstein 2008

“Nay,” said the Landamman, “I sincerely hope we shall both enter and depart from the town of Breisach, without deviating from the pacific character with which our mission from the Diet invests us.”

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Look here — I told you that my officer, Sir Archibald de Hagenbach, was murdered when the town of Breisach was treacherously taken by these harmless Switzers of yours and here is a scroll of parchment, which announces that my servant was murdered by doom of the

Anne of Geierstein 2008

The bugle of the Switzers had repeatedly emitted its angry roar, exasperated by the delay of nearly half-an-hour, without an answer from the guarded gate of Breisach; and every blast declared, by the prolonged echoes which it awakened, the in creased impatience of those who summoned the town.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Breisach, the same form which they now rested upon, in circumstances so very different!

Anne of Geierstein 2008

On leaving the library, or study, and descending a short stair, he found himself in the street of Breisach.

Anne of Geierstein 2008