Early Modern Europe
Primary Sources
Pre-Reformation
- Critique of the Papacy at Avignon
- Petrarch, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church
- Condemnation of Wycliffe, and his reply
- Jan Hus, Final Declaration
Reformation Writings
- 95 Theses
- Luther, On the Freedom of a Christian
- The Schleitheim Confession
- St. Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises
Other Early Modern Sources
- Draft of a Poor Law, 1536
- Hobbes, Leviathan
- St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
- The Court of Louis XIV
- Elizabeth's Speech to her Troops
- The True Law of Free Monarchies
- The Petition of Right
- Statement of the Levellers
The Scientific Revolution
- Copernicus, The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
- Indictment of Galileo
- René Descartes, Discourse on Method
- Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica
Last reviewed June 2004