Berneri does not provide page references, but Lewis Mumford Story of Utopias pp.84–5 seems to be intended.ĭürer’s inspiration is sometimes said to have been Aztec Tenochtitlan.

‘eine kloster-ähnliche, viereckige Stadt’ (Bersier 1981:80).Ĭited in Berneri (1950:110). (Baker-Smith 1991:196 n.12) More’s familia seems to be an extended group which may include servants and retainers, whereas in Christianopolis (ch.14) familia is akin to the nuclear family of 20th century western society and has no servants. In 1516 the population of London was about 60,000. 78,000 if this is duplicated in the country then each city-state has 156,000 adults.

‘There are 6,000 familiae with an average of 13 adults in each city, i.e. ‘ ludibrio illi Rosencruciano opposita’ (Vita p.46, cited Montgomery 1973:I,37n.67.)Įlaborate and fanciful as the resources of Solomon’s House are (with caves 600 fathoms deep and towers half a mile high, for example) there seem to be only 33 Fellows at work in the institute, plus apprentices and servants. If we accept Andreæ literally, Christianopolis was meant as a pattern for a community which could come into existence as soon as a sufficient number of people have gathered together for this purpose’.(Berneri 1950:108) It was to fulfil their wish that the greater community of Christianopolis was described. (Montgomery 1973:I, 207, n.167.)īerneri argues that its impulse was the same as that which led to the publication of the Rosicrucian manifestoes: ‘This Brüderschaft (generally described as a Rosicrucian brotherhood) was intended for a small élite and did not answer the desire of the people who wanted to find a haven of rest and safety in the midst of the horrors and confusion of the times.

The legalistic language in which he attacks the operation of the law could almost be put into Die Fledermaus in place of the Lawyer’s list of legal optionsįor example, Montgomery translates cruciatus as ‘tortured interpretations’ in a passage from Turris Babel (1619) but suggests that Andreæ may have had four distinct ideas in mind: (1) the tortured character of the predictions (2) the use of the cross-symbol (3) the alternative name of Naometrianism - ‘Militia Crucifera Evangelica’ (4) the prophesied crucifixion of the Pope.

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