Magna Carta : manuscripts and myths

著者

• Breay, Claire

書誌事項

Magna Carta : manuscripts and myths

Claire Breay

British Library, 2010

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 55) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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in which Magna Carta was issued to discover what it really meant to its creators and how it came to be an iconic historical document.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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB08781370
• ISBN:
  • 9780712358330
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: 56 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 342.42029
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Magna Carta
  • LCSH : Constitutional history -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1154-1399