Full name: Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter

Author: Dan Jones Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781781858851 1781858853

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Plantagenets comes a beautifully produced account of the signing, impact, and legacy of a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled barons in a meadow by the river Thames named Runnymede. Beset by foreign crisis and domestic rebellion, King John was fast running out of options. On June 15 he reluctantly agreed to fix his regal seal to a document that would change the world. A milestone in the development of constitutional politics and the rule of law, the "Great Charter" established an Englishman's right to Habeas Corpus and set limits to the exercise of royal power. For the first time a group of subjects had forced an English king to agree to a document that limited his powers by law and protected their rights. Dan Jones's elegant and authoritative narrative of the making and legacy of the Magna Carta is amplified by profiles of the barons who secured it and a full text of the charter in both Latin and English. Similar books: 1215 by Danny Danziger An Age of Tyrants by Christopher A. Snyder Revolution by Peter Ackroyd The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine The Elizabethans by A. N. Wilson Austerity Britain by David Kynaston Foundation by Peter Ackroyd A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire: 1776-2001 by Simon Schama The Mistresses of Cliveden by Natalie Livingstone Rebellion by Peter Ackroyd Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 by Linda Colley The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer Never Had It So Good by Dominic Sandbrook 1939 by Anne de Courcy