LEADER 03859nam 22005293 450 001 9910151645003321 005 20241107094029.0 010 $a0-525-42829-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000938003 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6108456 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6108456 035 $a(OCoLC)1156110707 035 $a(ODN)ODN0002102144 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000938003 100 $a20210901d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMagna Carta $eThe Birth of Liberty 210 $d2015 210 1$aEast Rutherford :$cPenguin Publishing Group,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015. 215 $a1 online resource (310 pages) 311 $a0-14-310895-6 311 $a0-698-18642-7 327 $aI: Origins. -- The devil's brood -- Lionheart and Softsword -- Interdict and intimidation -- Crisis and catastrophe -- II: Opposition. -- Trouble at the temple -- Taking the cross -- Confrontation -- London -- III: The rule of law. -- Runnymede -- The Magna Carta -- England under siege -- Endgame -- IV: Afterlife. -- The Magna Carta reborn -- Then and now -- Appendix A: The text of the Magna Carta, 1215 -- Appendix B: The enforcers of the Magna Carta -- Appendix C: Eight hundred years of the Magna Carta. 330 $a"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." ?Antonia Fraser From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets, a lively, action-packed history of how the Magna Carta came to be ? by the author of Powers and Thrones.   The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles?even its language?can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange document and how did it gain such legendary status? Dan Jones takes us back to the turbulent year of 1215, when, beset by foreign crises and cornered by a growing domestic rebellion, King John reluctantly agreed to fix his seal to a document that would change the course of history. At the time of its creation the Magna Carta was just a peace treaty drafted by a group of rebel barons who were tired of the king's high taxes, arbitrary justice, and endless foreign wars. The fragile peace it established would last only two months, but its principles have reverberated over the centuries.  Jones's riveting narrative follows the story of the Magna Carta's creation, its failure, and the war that subsequently engulfed England, and charts the high points in its unexpected afterlife. Reissued by King John's successors it protected the Church, banned unlawful imprisonment, and set limits to the exercise of royal power. It established the principle that taxation must be tied to representation and paved the way for the creation of Parliament.  In 1776 American patriots, inspired by that long-ago defiance, dared to pick up arms against another English king and to demand even more far-reaching rights. We think of the Declaration of Independence as our founding document but those who drafted it had their eye on the Magna Carta. 606 $aNonfiction$2OverDrive 606 $aHistory$2OverDrive 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yJohn, 1199-1216 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 607 $aEngland$2fast 607 $aGreat Britain$2fast 615 17$aNonfiction. 615 7$aHistory. 676 $a942.033 686 $aHIS015000$aHIS031000$aHIS037010$2bisacsh 700 $aJones$b Dan$01215685 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151645003321 996 $aMagna Carta$92809060 997 $aUNINA