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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Principles of Natural Philosophy
This site from Fordham University is an exerpt from Newton's famous "Principia."
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Paine
The complete original text of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" originally published in January 1776.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Charter for Town of St. Omer
Fordham University site presents the original text of a town charter granted by a local lord.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Letter From the East to the Master of Hospitallers
This is a primary source document, written by Ansbert, detailing the events in and around Jerusalem, during the Third Crusade.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: The German Crusade, 1197
This Fordham University site is a primary source document dealing with this one aspect of the events of the Third Crusade.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Charter Granted to the Cambridge
This document presents the text of a charter granted to the citizens of Cambridge in 1201 by King John of England.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Black Death Described by Giovanni Boccaccio 1348
A primary source describing the Plague or Black Death's symptoms, its transmission, and its affects on societies' behavior.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Henry Iv Letter to Gregory Vii
Contains the full text of Henry IV's response to Gregory VII after being called a "usurper," in which Henry refers to Gregory IV as a "false monk."
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Letter From the Sixth Crusade, 1249
This site contains a translation of a letter which was written during the Sixth Crusade in 1249.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: The Fourth Crusade 1204
Fordham University provides a collection of writings about the crusade, covering the Fourth Crusade from its initial events to its conclusion.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Grant of a Market at Bremen
Fordham's Medieval Sourcebook contains the text of a decree providing minting rights and protection, issued by Holy Roman Emperor Otto I to the merchants of Bremen, 965 A.D..
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Charter of Homage and Fealty
Fordham University presents the full text of an oath of homage and fealty between a lord and vassal from Europe during the Middle Ages.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Columbus' Letter to the King and Queen of Spain
Fordham University provides the full text of a letter written about 1494 from Christopher Columbus to the King and Queen of Spain regarding the Islands of Hispaniola.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Anna Comena: The Alexiad
Click here to read excerpts from the "Alexiad", a historical account written by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexius I, that chronicles the arrival of the first Crusaders.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Letter on Henry Divorce 1533
A letter by Thomas Cranmer on Henry VIII's divorce, written in 1533 as a firsthand account of Henry's activity.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Edicts of Toleration
This site contains information on two important religious edicts given by Roman emperors relating to Christianity and its role as a persecuted religion in ancient Rome.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Ban on Lay Investitures
Contains the full text of Gregory VII's decrees which banned lay investiture.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: The Vase at Soissons
The two most important events of Clovis' reign are described here in the words of Gregory of Tours, a medieval writer (translated into easy-to-read modern English)
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Inquisition
Article provides a detailed introduction to the inquisition as a legal proceeding rather than the Spanish relgio-secular institutional body that the word more often brings to mind.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Jerome: Against Vigilantius
Fordham University's Medieval Source Book is a collection of copy-permitted texts from the public domain related to medieval and Byzantine history. This site contains the full-text translation of a letter dictated by Joan of Arc to the...
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Crusade of St. Louis
This site offers detailed information on the Sixth Crusade.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Grant of Tax Liberties to London
This resource presents the original text of a negotiated system of taxation between the city of London and King Henry I.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: A Homily on Dormition of Our Supremely Pure Lady Theotokos & Ever Virgin Mary
Fordham University provides this primary source document dealing with the Eastern views of Mary, written by St. Gregory Palamas. Site includes links to other sources of information on this historical period.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Grant of Land for Gild Hall of St. Omer
Presents the original text of a grant by a local lord to township in order to build a guild hall for commercial transactions.