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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?

by /u/PartyMoses in /r/AskHistorians

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