Magna Carta / J.C. Holt.
This is a fully revised and extended edition of J.C. Holt's study of Magna Carta, the Great Charter, which sets the events of 1215 and the Charter itself in the context of the law, politics and administration of England and Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The author has added to...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1992.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Charter and its history
- Government and society in the twelfth century
- Privilege and liberties
- Justice and jurisdiction
- Crisis and civil war
- Quasi pax
- The quality of the Great Charter
- The achievement of 1215
- From distraint to war
- The re-issues and the beginning of the myth
- Appendices. 1. The meeting at Bury St Edmunds, 1214 ; 2. Notification of Thomas count of Perche, February 1215 ; 3. Triplex forma pacis ; 4. The 'unknown' charter ; 5. The Articles of the Barons ; 6. Magna Carta, 1215 ; 7. Translations of the Charters ; 8. The twenty-five barons of Magna Carta, 1215 ; 9. The date of the London treaty ; 10. The Oxford Council, 16-23 July 1215 ; 11. Select documents illustrative of the history of the Magna Carta, 1215 ; 12. Magna Carta, 1225 ; 13. Charter of the Forest, 1225 ; 14. Liberties and perpetuity.