The making of Magna Carta

In a world in which monarchy was the only thinkable form of government, there was no suggestion of fundamental political change. [...]these charters left power in the hands of the king and sought only to regulate the existing system of government. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that almost precis...

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Published in:Historian (London) 2015-04 (125), p.6
Main Author: Ambler, Sophie
Format: Article
Language:English
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Centuries
Montfort, Simon de (1208?-65)
Politics
Power
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Summary:In a world in which monarchy was the only thinkable form of government, there was no suggestion of fundamental political change. [...]these charters left power in the hands of the king and sought only to regulate the existing system of government. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that almost precisely 200 years earlier, in 1014, all the councillors... ecclesiastical and lay' allowed King Æthelred to return from exile and retake his throne on condition that 'he would govern them more justly than he did before'.
ISSN:0265-1076
2398-158X