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This book examines the history and influence ofMagna Carta in British and American history. In a series of essays written bynotable British specialists, it considers the origins of thedocument in the political and religious contexts of the thirteenth century,the relevance of its principles to the seventeenthcentury disputes that led to the Civil War, the uses made ofMagna Carta to justify the American Revolution, and its inspirationof the radical-democratic movement in Britain in the early nineteenth century.The introductory essay considers the celebration of MagnaCarta's 800th anniversary in 2015 in relation to ceremonials andremembrance in Britain in general. Given as papers to a joint conferenceof British and Chinese historians in Beijing in 2015, these essays provide aclear and insightful overview of the origins and impact of a medieval documentthat has shaped the history of the world. The open access edition of this book can be found at http://humanities-digital-library.org/index.php/hdl/catalog/book/goldman.
Contents
List of illustrations Foreword Retrospect and prospect: 800th anniversary of Magna Carta Notes on contributors 1. Historic anniversaries in British public life: Magna Carta 800/2015 in perspective Lawrence Goldman2. Magna Carta 1215: its social and political context David Carpenter3. Magna Carta: from King John to western liberty Nicholas Vincent4. The Church and Magna Carta in the thirteenth century S. T. Ambler5. Sir Edward Coke's resurrection of Magna Carta George Garnett6. `More precious in your esteem than it deserveth'? Magna Carta and seventeenth-century politics Rachel Foxley7. Magna Carta in the American Revolution Harry T. Dickinson8. Reform, radicalism and revolution: Magna Carta in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain Alexander LockIndex
