Hanover Historical Texts Project
In 1995, the History Department and Hanover students initiated the
Hanover Historical Texts Project. The Project's principal aim is
to make primary texts readily available to students and faculty
for use in history and humanities courses.
The texts scanned for the project are all in public domain.
The electronic forms of the texts created by the HHTP are under
copyright. Permission to copy and use the texts is granted for
educational purposes. We ask that you acknowledge the Hanover
Historical Texts Project. Permission is not granted for
commercial uses.
Bibliographical information and acknowledgements for scanning,
conversion into html, and proofreading are found at the
beginning of each text. Page numbers appear in parentheses at
the point of the page breaks in the original texts.
Ancient Greece and Rome
The Presocratics
Anaxagoras
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Empedocles
Melissos
Parmenides
Pythagoras and the
Pythagoreans
Thales
Xenophanes
Zeno
Medieval Europe
Letters of Crusaders
Anselme of Ribemont, Anselme of
Ribemont, Letter to Manasses II, Archbishop of Reims
(1098)
Stephen, Count of Blois and Chartres, Letter to his wife, Adele
(1098)
Daimbert, Godfrey and Raymond, Letter
to the Pope (1099)
Conrad III, First Letter to Wibald,
Abbot of Corvey (1148)
Conrad III, Second Letter to
Wibald, Abbot of Corvey (1148)
Aymeric, Patriarch of Antioch, Letter
to Louis VII of France (1164)
Letter from the East to Master of
Hospitalers (1187)
Frederick I, Letter to Leopold of
Austria (1189)
Sibylla, Ex-Queen of Jerusalem,Letter
to Frederick I (1189)
The Duke of Lorraine, Letter to the
Archbishop of Cologne [1197]
Frederic II, Letter to Henry IlI of
England (1229)
Gerold, Patriarch of Jerusalem, Letter
to all the Faithful (1229)
The Master of the Hospitalers at Jerusalem,Letter to Lord de
Melaye, (1244) (in progress)
Guy, a knight,Letter to B. of Chartres, (1249) (in progress)
Lives of Saints
Jacobus de Voragine, The
Golden Legend (in progress)
Britain
Holy feast of Pentecost
Feast of the holy sacrament (in
progress)
The Dedication of the Temple of the
Church (in progress)
Early Modern Europe
The Italian Renaissance
Francis Petrarch, Familiar
Letters (selections)
Petrarch, Canzoniere (in progress)
Petrus Paulus Vergerius, De Ingenuis
Moribus (c. 1404)
Leonardo Bruni, De Studiis et Literis
Battista Guarino, De Ordine Docendi
et Studendi
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, De
Liberorum Educatione
Lorenzo Valla, On the False
Donation of Constantine
The Reformation in Germany and Switzerland
Martin Luther, Address to the
Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520) excerpts
The German Mass and Order of Divine
Service (1526)
Ordinances For The Regulation of the
Churches Dependent Upon the Seigniory of Geneva (1547)
excerpts
Genevan Ecclesiastical Ordinances (1561) excerpts (in progress)
Complaint of Nicholas de la Fontaine
against Servetus (1553) excerpts
The Catholic Reformation
The Canons and Decrees of the Council
of Trent
The Religious Wars
An Account of the Massacre of St.
Bartholomew's Day
An Account of the Destruction of
Magdeburg
The Witch Hunts
Johannes Nider, Formicarius (c.
1437) excerpts (in progress)
Bull Summis Desderantes (1484)
(in progress)
Heinrich Kramer and James SprengerMalleus
Maleficarum (1486) excerpts
Jean Bodin, De la demonomanie des
sorciers (1580) excerpts
Witch Persecutions at Trier
Witch Persecutions at Bonn
Witch Persecutions at Bamberg
Witch Persecutions at Wurzburg
Newes from Scotland (1591) (in progress)
George Gifford, A dialogue concerning
witches and witchcraftes (1593) excerpts
James I, Demonologie (1597) (in progress)
Friedrich Spee, Cautio criminalis
(1631) excerpts (in progress)
Samuel Willard, A briefe
account of . . . Elizabeth Knap of Groton (c.1671)
Witchcraft in New York: The Cases of
Hall and Harrison
Increase Mather, Remarkable
Providences relating to Witchcraft and Possessions (1684)
excerpts
Cotton Mather, Discourse on
Witchcraft (1689) excerpts (in progress)
Cotton Mather, Memorable
Providences relating to Witchcraft and Posessions (1689)
excerpts (in progress)
The Scientific Revolution
Francis Bacon, The Great
Instauration (1620) excerpts
The Enlightenment
John Locke, The Reasonableness of the Christian Religion (in
progress)
Baron d'Holbach, Good Sense(in progress)
Voltaire, Philosophical
Dictionary excerpts
France
The Colloquy of Poissy (1561) excerpts (in progress)
Articles of the French League excerpts (in progress)
The Edict of Nantes excerpts (in progress)
Cardinal Richelieu, Political
Testament excerpts
Royal Edict of 1626 ordering the
demolition of the feudal castles in France
Letters patent establishing the
French Academy (1635) excerpts
Jacques Benigne Bossuet, Political
Treatise excerpts
Jean Baptiste Colbert,Memoirs
excerpts
Louis XIV, Letter to the Town Officers
and People of Marseilles (1664)
Accounts of Louis XIV
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
(October 22, 1685)
Britain
Documents Illustrative of the
History of the English Church (in progress)
Queen Elizabeth's Proclamation to
Forbid Preaching (1558)
The 1559 Injunctions
Elizabeth's Act of Supremacy
(1559)
Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity
(1559)
The Advertisements (1566)
Selection from the Canons of
1571 (Canon 6. Concerning preachers.)
The Subscription (Thirty-Nine
Articles) Act (1571)
Articles Touching Preachers and
Other Orders for the Church (1583)
Act Against Jesuits and
Seminarists (1585)
The Act Against Puritans
(1593)
The Act Against Recusants
(1593)
The Millenary Petition
(1603)
James' Proclamation for the Use
of the Book of Common Prayer (1604)
Directions Concerning Preachers
(1622)
The King's Declaration Prefixed
to the Articles of Religion (Nov. 1628)
Resolutions on Religion
Presented by a Committee of The House of Commons (1629)
The King's Majesty's Declaration
to His Subjects Concerning Lawful Sports to be Used (1633)
The Privy Council and the
Position of the Communion Table at St. Gregory's (1633)
The Etcaetera Oath (in the
Canons of 1640)
The Root and Branch Petition
(1640)
Puritan Voices
Charles I, The Declaration of Sport
The Declaration of Right (1689) excerpts
Modern Europe
The French Revolution
Arthur Young, Travels in France
(1792) excerpts
Cahier of 1789, The Clergy of Blois
and Romorantin
Cahiers of 1789: The Nobility of
Blois
Cahiers of 1789: The Third Estate
of Versailles
Cahier of 1789: The Third Estate of
Carcassonne
The Decree Abolishing Feudalism
(1789)
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
(1790)
The Proclamation of the Duke of
Brunswick (1792)
Documents of the National Convention
St. Just, Republican Institute excerpts
Napoleon, Account of the Situation
of the Empire (1804) excerpts
19th Century Conservatism
The Carlsbad Decrees (1819) excerpts
Nationalism
Joseph Mazzini, The Duties
of Man (1844) excerpts
The Revolutions of 1848
Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in
France
Documents of the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (in progress)
Documents of the Revolutions of 1848 in Italy (in progress)
National Unification
Documents of the Italian Unification (in progress)
Otto von Bismarck, Memoirs
excerpts
Labor and Socialist Movements
The Gotha Program (1875)
The Erfurt Program (1891)
Imperialism
J.A. Hobson, Imperialism excerpts (in progress)
The Russian Revolution
Telegram from the American Consulater
in Sweden to the U.S. Secretary of State, March 17, 1917
contributed by David Trail
Telegram from the American Consulate in
Petrograd to the U.S. Secretary of State, March 20, 1917
contributed by David Trail
Telegram from the American Consulate in
Moscow to the U.S. Secretary of State, March 20, 1917
contributed by David Trail
17th Century Colonial History
New England
John Winthrop, A Model of
Christian Charity (1630)
Anne Bradstreet, A Dialogue
Between Old England and New (1630)
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties
(1641)
Samuel Willard, A briefe
account of . . . Elizabeth Knap of Groton (c.1671)
Increase Mather, Remarkable
Providences relating to Witchcraft and Possessions (1684)
excerpts
Cotton Mather, Discourse on
Witchcraft (1689) excerpts (in progress)
Cotton Mather, Memorable
Providences relating to Witchcraft and Posessions (1689)
excerpts (in progress)
18th Century Colonial and US
History
The Revolution
Samuel Adams, The Rights of the
Colonists (1772)
19th Century US History
20th Century US History
The Americas Outside the US
The Conquest
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New
Spain (in progress)
Africa
The Slave Trade
Olaudah Equiano,
The Interesting Narrative of the Life (1789) complete text
The Middle East
India and Southeast Asia
East Asia
China
Japan
The Heian Court
The Diary of Lady
Sarashina (1009-1059) complete text
The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu (in progress)
The Diary of Izumi Shikibu (in progress)
Constitutional Documents
The Constitution of the Empire of
Japan (1889) contributed by Jonathan Dresner, Harvard
University
The Constitution of Japan, 1947
contributed by Jonathan Dresner, Harvard University
History of Hanover College
A.Y. Moore, The
History of Hanover College (1900)
William Alfred Millis,The
History of Hanover College: From 1827 to 1927
The Bye-Laws and Standing Rules of
the Madison Presbytery (1826)
Inaugural Address of President
Erasmus D. MacMaster, November 7, 1838
The Inaugural Address of President
Sylvester Scovel (1847)
Last Updated: March 10, 2001
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