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Defining Documents in World History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era explores vital documents from important world figures from the 15th and 16th centuries, including Thomas Aquinas, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marco Polo, and many more. This new addition to the Defining Documents series offers in-depth...

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Other Authors: Shally-Jensen, Michael (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, Massachusetts : [Amenia, New York] : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Grey House Publishing, [2017]
Edition:[First edition].
Series:Defining documents in world history.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The Black Death
  • The Black Death: Two Readings
  • Florentine Chronicle
  • Europe in War and Peace
  • Statute of Laborers
  • Joan of Arc: Letter to Henry VI
  • Malleus maleficarum
  • The Croyland Chronicle: Battle of Bosworth Field
  • Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada
  • Alhambra Decree
  • Renaissance Arts and Letters
  • Divine Comedy
  • Petrarch's Letters
  • Decameron
  • Oration on the Dignity of Man
  • The Praise of Folly
  • The Prince
  • History of Florence: "Lorenzo de' Medici"
  • "Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor"
  • "Of the Education of Children"
  • New World Encounters and Conflicts
  • Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America
  • Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama
  • Requerimiento
  • New Laws of the Indies
  • A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
  • Letter to King Philip of Spain
  • The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
  • The Protestant Reformation and After
  • Ninety-five Theses
  • Edict of Worms
  • Act of Supremacy
  • Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent
  • The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus
  • Dutch Declaration of Independence
  • Appendixes. Chronological List. Web Resources. Bibliography.