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Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. With a full English translation of the 1215 charter, Nicholas Vincent introduces the document to a modern audience; explaining its origins and tracing its significance in history.Tags
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Overall a good survey. There are sections that drag in bit in the details. However, for such a complex topic it does a fair job as an introduction.
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Common Knowledge
- Important events
- Magna Carta (1215)
- First words
- English history is more often recited as a procession of kings and queens than of documents or ideas.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The paradox of modern Runnymeade is perhaps a fitting place for us to end our survey of Magna Carta, that most paradoxical yet still most totemic of documentary relics.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 942.033 — History & geography History of Europe England and Wales England Plantagenet 1154-1399 John 1199-1216
- LCC
- KD3946 .V56 — Law Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland Law of England and Wales Constitutional law History By period
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
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