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Magna Carta
Claire Breay
其他書名
Manuscripts and Myths
出版British Library, 2002
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485)History / Europe / MedievalLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / Books & ReadingPolitical Science / General
ISBN07123474379780712347433
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Vs0VAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Magna Carta is one of the most celebrated documents in English history and one of the most popular exhibits at The British Library. But despite this fame, the reinterpretations made of it since 1215 have tended to obscure its real meaning for King John and his baronial opponents. Magna Carta was not intended to be a lasting declaration of legal principle, still less an embryonic code of human rights. It was a practical solution to a political crisis and it served the interests of the highest ranks of feudal society by reasserting the power of custom to limit arbitrary behaviour by the king. This book explores the context in which Magna Carta was issued to discover what it really meant to its creators and how it came to be an iconic historical document.