Declarations and Manifestos of the Medieval and Early Modern World, 1000 to 1699

This group gathers the declarations and manifestos of the medieval and early modern world, 1000 to 1699. These are the declarations, proclamations, manifestos and political essays by which leaders and movements stated their aims to the public. A document belongs here when its cited article gives a date inside this span for the document's own signing, adoption, issue or composition. It excludes documents dated earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring period groups of the same kind. The medieval and early modern world, 1000 to 1699, covers feudal kingdoms, the Church and the Empire, the age of exploration and the wars of religion.