Eyewitness Accounts 300 CE to 1770

From the beginning of the middle ages to the industrial revolution, the world saw immense growth and change after many centuries of decline. The following colection is comprised of eyewitness account of important events from 300 CE to 1770.

Titles

Ammianus Reports from the Battlefield of Adrianople (Ammianus Marcellinus)

Canossa: Humiliation of a Monarch (Gregory VII)

As the Crusaders Saw It (Stephen)

Butchery on the Operating Table (Usamah)

Immortal Lovers: Abélard and Héloise (Pierre Abélard)

Kubla Khan’s Annual Beauty Contest (Marco Polo)

Jean De Venette on the Black Death (Jean de Venette)

The Great Delusion (Christopher Columbus)

Vespucci Announces a New World (Amerigo Vespucci)

Peasants and Workers Revolt in Germany (Michael Eisenhart)

Gang Warfare in Rome (Benvenuto Cellini)

Michelangelo’s Ordeal on the Scaffold (Giorgi Vasari)

Sir Thomas More Meets Death With a Wisecrack (H. Hall)

Too Tall by a Head (James Melville)

The Massacre of St. Bartholomew (Maximilian de Béthune)

England Repels Invasion (Walter Raleigh)

Sir Walter Raleigh Tried for Treason

Pocahontas Risks Her Neck for Captain Smith (John Smith)

Mutiny on the Mayflower (William Bradford)

The Puritans Place a Ceiling on Wages (John Winthrop)

The Execution of Charles I

Cromwell Breaks up Parliament (Robert Sydney)

Samuel Pepys on the Great Fire of London (Samuel Pepys)

America’s First Revolt (Thomas Mathew)

The Turks Are Routed at Vienna (John Sobieski)

Psychoneurosis at Salem (Cotton Mather)

Peter the Great Suppresses a Rebellion (Johann Georg von Korb)

The King’s Pride Goeth

"This Is the Forest Primeval . . ." (John Winslow)