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| Crisis and Renaissance, 1340- 1500 | |
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| The Black Death (Fourteenth Century) | |
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| Thomas Walsingham, Peasant Rebels in London (1381) | |
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| Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man (1496) | |
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| Bernardino of Siena, An Italian Preacher: Sins against Nature (1380-1444) | |
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| Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Chronicle of the Discovery of Guinea (c. 1453) | |
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| Struggles over Beliefs, 1500- 1648 | |
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| Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian (1520) | |
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| Saint Ignatius of Loyola, A New Kind of Catholicism (1546, 1549, 1553) | |
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| Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, The Adventures of a Simpleton (1668- 1669) | |
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| Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615) | |
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| The Trial of Suzanne Gaudry (1652) | |
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| State Building and the Search for Order, 1648- 1690 | |
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| Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694- 1723) | |
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| British Parliament, The English Bill of Rights (1689) | |
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| Ludwig Fabritius, The Revolt of Stenka Razin (1670) | |
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| A True and Exact Relation of the Raising of the Siege of Vienna (1683) | |
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| Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves (1678) | |
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| The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1690 - 1740 | |
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| Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself (1789) | |
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| Tsar Peter I, Letter to His Son, Alexei (October 11, 1715); Alexei's Response (October 31, 1715) | |
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| Montequieu, Persian Letters: Letter 37 (1721) | |
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| Mary Astell, Reflections upon Marriage (1706) | |
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| Pietist Spiritual Songbook (1705) | |
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| The Promise of Enlightenment, 1740 - 1789 | |
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| Marie-Therese Geoffrin and M. d'Alembert, The Salon of Madame Geoffrin (1765) | |
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| Reprinted in Brian Tierney and Joan Scott, Western Societies: A Documentary History (McGraw Hill, 1984), vol. 2, 186-87 | |
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| Jacques-Louis Menetra, Journal of My Life (1764- 1802) | |
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| Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) | |
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| Frederick II, Political Testament (1752) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776 | |
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| The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789- 1815 | |
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| Abb�© Siey�¿s, What is the Third Estate? (1789 | |