Obwoln ein Edler Ehrnvester Rath deß Heyligen Römischen Reich Statt Nürnberg … Decretum in Senato 20. May Anno 1625 [Tanzverbot] (Nuremberg s.n., 1625)
This edict commands the people of Nuremberg to live modestly and quietly and to refrain from anything exuberant like dancing, due to the hard times the city was enduring (in the early years of the Thirty Years War).
Tanzverbot, dancing ban.
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); Law; Dance; Tierce coulée; Nuremberg (Germany)