Primary Source Suggestions for Early Modern European History (for undergraduates)

by agentdcf

Heyo everyone,

I'm teaching Early Modern Europe to undergrads next fall, and I've come to lament the sorry state of my primary source library for this period. I need suggestions for substantial primary sources: 100-200 pages is best, and I'm happy to take novels, memoirs, political essays, whatever--but I'd like sources that get away from Britain, France, and Germany. I'd especially like sources from Iberia, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, or Eastern Europe. Thematically, I can work with almost anything, so whatever you've got that you found readable and interesting, let's hear it

Enrico_Dandolo

Sorry in advance for the German source but...Gluckel of Hameln, memoirs of a Jewish woman who ran a commercial Empire (of sorts). You get women, religious minorities, and economics all in one volume.

TheApiary

Try volumes 5 and 6 of this series, designed for UChicago's undergrad core sequence: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/RWC.html

Some particularly good ones: Alessandra Strozzi's letters from Renaissance Florence; compare and contrast Luther's letter with the bull of convocation for the Council of Trent; and the Galileo documents in vol. 6