| 单词 | common penny |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon penny common penny n. historical a tax paid by all eligible subjects of the Holy Roman Empire; esp. the imperial tax instigated by Maximilian I in 1495 as a means of funding wars against France and the Ottoman Empire. ΚΠ 1807 W. Coxe Hist. House Of Austria I. i. xxxii. 541 Hitherto the armies had been supplied by personal service,..or by the impost called the common penny. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 79 At Regensburg, in the year 1471—the allied powers..attempted to impose a sort of property tax on the whole empire, called the Common Penny [Ger. den gemeinen Pfennig]. 1996 Oxf. Encycl. Reformation (Electronic text) at Schmalkald League During the discussions about renewal and reform of the league in 1545–1546, Sturm strongly advocated shifting to a direct tax, called ‘the common penny’ (der gemeine Pfennig), which the Imperial Diet had reintroduced at Speyer in 1544 (it dated back to 1495). < as lemmas |
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