Magna Carta
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Magna Carta
Cambridge University Press, 1992
2nd ed
- : hardback
- : pbk
Available at 28 libraries
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Includes bibliography (p. 523-530) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 the first edition (1965) further comment on the development of local liberties, the significance of the famous provision nullus liber homo, the political manoeuvres of 1215, and the later history of the Charter, and many other matters. The book is broadened by the addition of an extensive chapter on justice and jurisdiction which embodies an entirely new approach to some of the most crucial and longest-lasting provisions of the Charter. New appendices have been added. Some of these are concerned with the political crisis of 1213-15, for example the alleged meeting at Bury St Edmunds; others examine the Anglo-Norman translations of the Charter and related documents, or the development of perpetual liberties. References are brought up to date throughout, and there is an entirely new index.
Table of Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. The Charter and its history
- 2. Government and society in the twelfth century
- 3. Privilege and liberties
- 4. Custom and law
- 5. Justice and jurisdiction
- 6. Crisis and civil war
- 7. Quasi Pax
- 8. The quality of the Great Charter
- 9. The achievement of 1215
- 10. From distraint to war
- 11. The re-issues and the beginning of the myth
- Appendices
- References
- Index.
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