Magna Carta

Magna Carta holds a special place in the popular imagination of the English. This, the first major book to explore the great political vision that lay behind it, uncovers the mystery of its origins, and charts its enduring relevance through the centuries.

Introduction: Magna Carta: disentangling history from myth 1. England under the Angevin kings: Henry II and his sons, Richard I and John 2. King John's reign 3. The making and unmaking of Magna Carta, 1215 4. The first century of Magna Carta 5. Magna Carta in the later middle ages and the Tudor period 6. Magna Carta's revival in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 7. Magna Carta in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 8. Magna Carta in the New World Works cited in notes Other useful works Index