Magna Carta, Second Edition By J.C Holt

Magna Carta Second Edition By J.C Holt

This is a completely updated and expanded edition of J. C. Holt's study of the Great Charter of Magna Carta, which places the events of 1215 and the Charter itself in the context of English and European law, politics, and administration in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The author has expanded on the evolution of local rights, the meaning of the famous provision nullus liber homo, the political manoeuvrings of 1215, and the Charter's later history, among other topics, in the second edition (1965). An comprehensive chapter on justice and jurisdiction has been added to the book, which represents an entirely new approach to some of the Charter's most important and long-lasting provisions. There are now new appendices. Others look at the Anglo-Norman translations of the Charter and related writings, or the growth of perpetual freedoms. The references have been updated throughout, and there is a completely new index.