D'Artagnan - the Feats and Fortunes of a Gascon Adventurer! - http://www.freewebs.com/gasconadventurer/ Distinguishes between fact and fiction the characters of Alexander Dumas's book, The Three Musketeers, with those of the real historical world, includes biographies and a hoax page.
African Americans at Jamestown - http://www.nps.gov/archive/colo/Jthanout/AFRICANS.html Timeline of the legislation which carried into law the evolution of American slavery with bibliography.
Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Europe - http://www.absolutism-n-constitutionalism.freehomepage.com/ A project covering the era of major governmental changes in Europe, as well as the rise of Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
Parish of Rowner near Portsmouth Southern England - http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/ Wills, muster lists and parish register together with more general information including coinage, wages, prices and artillery.
Jean Domat - On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1687domat.html The setting of French law and social structure into the wider context of the law of nature and the law of God.
Social Conditions in 17th Century France - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/17france-soc.html From Report of the Estates of Normandy (1651) and Letters of the Abbess of Port-Royal.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert - Memorandum on Trade - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1664colbert.html A belief that material prosperity would raise the yield of taxes but that this prosperity would grow only with a managed economy.
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/don_quixote.html Excerpt that satirizes the chivalric traditions of the Middle Ages as absurdly old-fashioned.
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