Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and
subject and as such has long been central to English constitutional
and political history. This volume uses it as a springboard to focus
on social, economic, legal, and religious institutions and attitudes
in the early thirteenth century. What was England like between 1199
and 1215? And, no less important, how was King John perceived by those
who actually knew him? The essays here analyseearlier Angevin rulers
and the effect of their reigns on John's England, the causes and
results of the increasing baronial fear of the king, the "managerial
revolution" of the English church, and the effect of the _ius commune_
on English common law. They also examine the burgeoning economy of the
early thirteenth century and its effect on English towns, the
background to discontent over the royal forests which eventually led
to the Charter of the Forest, the effect of Magna Carta on widows and
property, and the course of criminal justice before 1215. The volume
concludes with the first critical edition of an open letter from King
John explaining his position in the matter ofWilliam de Briouze.
Contributors: Janet S. Loengard, Ralph V. Turner, John Gillingham,
David Crouch, David Crook, James A. Brundage, John Hudson, Barbara
Hanawalt, James Masschaele
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ISBN
9781846158124
Publisert
2020
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Boydell Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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