Magna Carta
Magna Carta by J. C. Holt is a fully revised and extended edition published by Cambridge University Press on March 25, 1976. This 384-page work presents a comprehensive study of the Great Charter, placing the events of 1215 and the Charter itself within the broader context of law, politics, and administration in England and Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Readers will find that this edition includes numerous corrections and additions, enhancing the original analysis. A new chapter on justice and jurisdiction offers a fresh perspective on the legal provisions of the Charter, which have had a lasting impact. Additionally, the book features new appendices that explore various topics, including vernacular translations of the Charter and grants of liberties in perpetuity, providing a deeper understanding of its significance.
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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.
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