Magna CartaCambridge University Press, 1992 M05 7 - 553 pages This is a fully revised and extended edition of Sir James Holt's classic 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 book is now published with many corrections and additions, including a new chapter on justice and jurisdiction that provides a fresh approach to the legal provisions of the Charter that were to prove so enduring, along with new appendices on matters as varied as vernacular translations of the Charter and grants of liberties in perpetuity. |
Contents
The Charter and its history I | 1 |
Government and society in the twelfth century | 23 |
Privilege and liberties | 50 |
Custom and law | 75 |
Justice and jurisdiction | 123 |
Crisis and civil war | 188 |
Quasi Pax | 237 |
The quality of the Great Charter | 267 |
Triplex forma pacis | 413 |
The unknown charter | 418 |
The Articles of the Barons | 429 |
Magna Carta 1215 | 441 |
Translations of the Charters | 474 |
The TwentyFive barons of Magna Carta 1215 | 478 |
The Oxford Council 1623 July 1215 | 484 |
Select documents illustrative of the history of Magna | 490 |
The achievement of 1215 | 297 |
ΙΟ From distraint to war | 347 |
The reissues and the beginning of the myth | 378 |
The meeting at Bury St Edmunds 1214 | 406 |
Notification of Thomas count of Perche February 1215 | 412 |
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