Magna Carta : a very short introduction /
Includes a full English translation of the 1215 Magna Carta, introduces the document to a modern audience, explaining its origins in the troubled reign of King John, and tracing the significant role that it played thereafter as a symbol of the subject's right to protection against the absolute...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Very short introductions ;
321. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. In Good King Edward's golden days
- 2. Angevin kingship: making and breaking royal law
- 3. King John's 'little ways'
- 4. The road to Runnymede
- 5. The charter defeated: the charter victorious
- 6. The charter as totem and as artefact.
