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 in progress
Parmenides
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
Thales
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 III 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)
Britain
Holy feast of Pentecost
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, Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged
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
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)
The Scientific Revolution
Francis Bacon, The Great Instauration (1620)
excerpts
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (1620) complete
text
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)
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
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)
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)
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
Anne Bradstreet, A Dialogue Between Old England
and New (1630) in progress
John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity
(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)
18th Century Colonial and US History
Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists (1772)
19th Century US History
Adkinson
family letters, 1863-1864
Julia
Eddy letters, 1864-1868
Sarah Butler Hendricks, prose
and poetry, c. 1854.
Hendricks
family letters, 1856-1859
20th Century US History
Hanover College Triangle, reports
on antiwar protest, 1970.
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) part one
The Middle East
India and Southeast Asia
East Asia
Japan
The Heian Court
The Diary of Lady Sarashina (1009-1059)
complete text
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
Hanover College
Documents on the history of Hanover College are available here.
Primary Sources from the Hanover College Archives
More information on manuscripts in the Hanover College Archives
is available here.
Adkinson
family letters, 1863-1864
Julia
Eddy letters, 1864-1868
Sarah Butler Hendricks, prose
and poetry, c. 1854.
Hendricks
family letters, 1856-1859
Work In Progress
Xenophanes
Feast of the holy sacrament
The Dedication of the Temple
of the Church
Johannes Nider, Formicarius
(c. 1437) excerpts
Cotton Mather, Memorable
Providences relating to Witchcraft and Posessions (1689) excerpts
Cardinal Richelieu, Political
Testament excerpts
Jean Baptiste Colbert,Memoirs
excerpts
Puritan Voices
Charles I, The Declaration
of Sport
The Proclamation of the Duke
of Brunswick (1792)
Last Updated: March 23, 2010
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