Western Civilization
Required Reading Primary Sources For Early Modern Period
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
95 Theses Luther, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Luther, On the Freedom of a Christian The Schleitheim Confession St. Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises
Social Changes
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
Scientific Revolution
Copernicus, The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Indictment of Galileo Francis Bacon, Novum Organum René Descartes, Discourse on Method Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica