Select Documents Illustrating Mediaeval and Modern History

""Select Documents Illustrating Mediaeval and Modern History"" by Emil Reich is a comprehensive collection of primary source documents that provide insight into the key events and figures of medieval and modern history. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the Crusades, the Hundred Years War, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. The documents included in the book are drawn from a variety of sources, including letters, diaries, speeches, and government records, and are presented in their original language with English translations provided for non-English sources. Each document is accompanied by a brief introduction that provides historical context and explains its significance. The book is an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the major events and trends that have shaped the course of history.1905. Reich explains in the introduction that students of history should be acquainted with some of the original documents in which the causes, motives, or results of great historical movements have been crystallized, at least partially. We say partially; for it would be a grave error to consider any one historic document as having been penned with perfect sincerity. In but too many documents the more important causes and motives have found no explicit expression. Yet, with all the shortcomings of historic documents, there still remains in many of them something of that atmosphere which was perhaps the real moving force of the events or institutions recorded in the documents. For this reason, the documents have been left in their original languages; that is, in Latin, Greek, English, French, German and Dutch; the documents in German and Dutch being made more accessible by English translations. The Contents are divided into the following parts: International Treaties; Church History; General Institutions of the Middle Ages; Byzantine Empire; Holy Roman Empire; Italian City States; France; France and England; England; Germany; Holland; Austria; Bohemia; Hungary; Poland; Switzerland; Turkey; Sweden and Russia; and America.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.