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1215 : the year of Magna Carta / Danny Danziger & John Gillingham.
- Title
- 1215 : the year of Magna Carta / Danny Danziger & John Gillingham.
- Author
- Danziger, Danny.
- Publication
- London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2003.
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| Text | Request in advance | DA208 .D29 2003 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Gillingham, John.
- Description
- 324 p. : map; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "On 15 June 1215, rebel barons forced King John to meet them at Runnymede. They did not trust the King, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal was attached to the charter in front of him." "This was Magna Carta. It was a revolutionary document: never before had royal authority been so fundamentally challenged. Nearly 800 years later, two of the charter's sixty-three clauses are still a ringing expression of freedom for mankind: 'To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or justice'. And, 'No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or in any way ruined, except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law or the land.'" "1215 - The Year of Magna Carta explores what it was like to be alive in that momentous year. Political power struggles are interwoven with other issues - fashion, food, education, medicine, religion, sex. In many areas it was a time of innovation and change. Windmills were erected, spectacles were invented. Dozens of new towns were founded Oxford became the first university in England, and the great cathedrals of Salisbury and Lincoln were built."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-310) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Englishman's castle -- The countryside -- Town -- School -- Family strife -- Tournaments and battles -- Hunting in the forest -- The church -- King John -- The King's Men -- Trial by ordeal -- A christian country -- The English and the Celts -- The wider world -- The great charter -- The myth.
- ISBN
- 0340824743
- LCCN
- ^^2003501377
- OCLC
- 52056471
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library