Magna Carta: Manuscripts and Myths - Softcover

Breay, Claire

 
9780712358330: Magna Carta: Manuscripts and Myths
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0712358331 ISBN 13: 9780712358330
Verlag: WordUnited, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

The Magna Carta is one of the most celebrated documents in English history and one of the British Library's greatest treasures. But despite this, the reinterpretations of it since 1215 have tended to obscure its real meaning for King John and his baronial opponents. Magna Carta was not intended to be a lasting declaration of legal principle, still less an embryonic code of human rights. It was a practical solution to a political crisis and it served the interests of the highest ranks of feudal society by reasserting the power of custom to limit arbitrary behaviour by the king. This work explores the context in which Magna Carta was issued to discover what it really meant to its creators and how it came to be an iconic historical document. This updated edition includes full colour illustrations.

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Clarie Breay is Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, Charters, and Seals at The British Library.

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Verlag
WordUnited
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0712358331
ISBN 13 
9780712358330
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
64
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