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The age in its own words. Forty-three original documents from 1400 to 1900 — the treaties, declarations and firsthand accounts that recorded five centuries of upheaval, faith and empire.

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The words of the age in full — treaties and declarations, the manifestos of the Reformation, and eyewitness accounts of its great battles and sieges.

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Religion & the Reformation

Martin Luther — To the Christian Nobility, 1520 John Calvin — Letter, 1547 Cardinal Pole's Testament Revocation of the Edict of Nantes The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre The Edict of 1626 Puritan Voices Witchcraft Documents

Government, Law & Liberty

Declaration of Independence of the United States The Constitution of the United States The Declaration of Rights The Habeas Corpus Act Decree Abolishing the Feudal System The Navigation Act The Stamp Act The Sugar Act

Treaties & Diplomacy

The Treaty of Paris The Treaty of Utrecht The Treaty of Westphalia Ottoman Declaration of War Louis XIV's Declaration of War on the Dutch

Battles, Sieges & Wars

The Second Battle of St. Albans The Battle of Barnet The Battle of Tewkesbury The Siege of Bamborough The Assault of Zutphen The Mutiny in Flanders The Destruction of Magdeburg The Battle of Blenheim The Battle of Schellenberg The Battle of the Boyne The Battle of Plassey The Siege of Vienna The Raising of the Siege of Vienna The Storming of Gibraltar The Defeat of the French in Catalonia The War in Ireland The Invasion of New England

Accounts, Memoirs & Science

Accounts of Louis XIV Accounts of Louis XIV (II) The Memoirs of Jean Baptiste Francis Bacon — The Great Instauration William Harvey on the Circulation of Blood

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