Ebook: Magna Carta : a very short introduction
Author: Nicholas Vincent
- Genre: History
- Tags: Magna Carta, Constitutional history -- England, Law -- England -- History, Great Britain -- History -- 13th century, Great Britain -- History -- 12th century, Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1066-1485, Constitutional history, Law, Politics and government, England, Great Britain, Verfassung, Verfassungsrecht, Großbritannien
- Series: Very short introductions 321
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Oxford
- Language: English
- mobi
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 authority of the sovereign. Drawing upon the great advances that have been made in our understanding of thirteenth-century Read more...