The more thorough-going of these itinerant apostles openly aimed at nothing less than the establishment of a new Christian Commonwealth, or, as they termed it, "the Kingdom of God on Earth." FOOTNOTES: [1] We are here, of course, dealing more especially with Germany; but substantially the same course was followed in the development of municipalities in other parts of Europe.
[2] _Einleitung_, pp.

255, 256.
[3] Cf.

Von Maurer's _Einleitung zur Geschichte der Mark-Verfassung_; Gomme's _Village Communities_; Laveleye, _La Propriete Primitive_; Stubbs's _Constitutional History_; also Maine's works.
[4] It should be remembered that Germany at this time was cut up into feudal territorial divisions of all sizes, from the principality, or the prince-bishopric, to the knightly manor.

Every few miles, and sometimes less, there was a fresh territory, a fresh lord, and a fresh jurisdiction..