John Baker

The Reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616

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Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges conventional assumptions about the afterlife of Magna Carta and tells a new story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 622
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1041g
• ISBN-13: 9781107187054
• ISBN-10: 1107187052
• Artikelnr.: 46489362

Autorenporträt

Sir John Baker taught at the University of Cambridge from 1971 to 2011, latterly as Downing Professor of the Laws of England. He also served for thirty years as Literary Director of the Selden Society and was knighted for services to legal history in 2003. He is the author of Collected Papers on English Legal History (Cambridge, 2013) and Introduction to English Legal History (4th edition, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The legal character of Magna Carta
2. Chapter 29 in the fourteenth century
3. Magna Carta in the Inns of Court, 1340-1540
4. Personal liberty and the Church
5. Royal prerogative and common law under Elizabeth I
6. William Fleetwood and Magna Carta
7. The resurgence of Chapter 29 after 1580
8. Magna Carta and the rule of law, 1592-1606
9. Sir Edward Coke and Magna Carta, 1606-15
10. 'A year consecrate to justice': 1616
11. Myth and reality.