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Danny
Danziger and John Gillingham.
1215: The Year of Magna Carta.
London:
Hodder
& Stoughton, May 2004.
ISBN
0340824751.
Paperback.
Publisher's
recommended price £7.99
On
15
June 1215,
rebel barons forced King John to meet them at Runnymede. They did
not trust the King, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal was
attached
to the charter in front of him. This was Magna Carta. It
was
a revolutionary document. Never before had royal authority been so
fundamentally
challenged. Nearly 800 years later, two of the charter's
sixty-three
clauses are still a ringing expression of freedom for mankind: 'To no
one
will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or justice'. And:
'No
free man shall be taken or imprisoned or in any way ruined, except by
the
lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land'. 1215 -
The Year of Magna Carta explores what it was like to be alive in that
momentous
year. Political power struggles are interwoven with other issues -
fashion,
food, education, medicine, religion, sex. In many areas it was a time
of
innovation and change. Windmills were erected, spectacles were
invented.
Dozens of new towns were founded. Oxford became the first
university
in England, and the great cathedrals of Salisbury and Lincoln were
built.
Whether describing matters of state or domestic life, this is a
treasure
house of a book, rich in detail and full of enthralling insights into
the
medieval world.
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in hardback in 2003. |
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