Magna Carta

Name: Magna Carta
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ISBN: 9780521277785

ISBN-10: 0521277787

ISBN-13: 9780521277785

Edition: 2nd 1992 (Revised)

Authors: J. C. Holt

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This is a fully revised and extended edition of J. C. Holts 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…

Book details

List price: $64.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/7/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 588
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of plates


Preface


Preface to the second edition


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



The Charter and its history



Government and society in the twelfth century



Privilege and liberties



Custom and law



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


References


Index