Stellingaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Stellinga ("companions, comrades") was a movement of frilingi and lazzi, the lower two of the three Saxon non-slave castes, between 841 and 845. As its aim, it desired to recuperate those rights the two castes had had when practising Germanic paganism in the 770s. At that time they had still possessed political rights and freedoms, which Charlemagne, by winning over the highest nobility, had diminished, making them merely peasants. The movement was resisted by the uppermost caste, the nobiles, with efforts to keep them in submission and Christian. The Stellinga also despised the codified Lex Saxonum and wished to live in accordance only with ancient tribal custom.