![]() ![]() ![]() Requires to be here acknowledged to previous commentators,Ī far deeper debt is due to many scholars who have, within Sources where these were available, advantage has beenįreely taken of the labours of others. While reference has been made throughout to original The contents and characteristics of the Charter, traces itsĬonnection with the subsequent course of English history,Īnd gives some account of previous editions and commentaries. The grievances which stirred the barons to revolt, discusses Is preceded by a Historical Introduction, whichĭescribes the events leading to the crisis of 1215, analyzes Of England during the thirteenth century. John and his barons felt a vital interest, has involved anĪnalysis in some detail of the whole public and private life Sixty-three chapters of Magna Carta, embracing, as these do,Įvery topic-legal, political, economic and social-in which This attempt to explain, point by point, the The Commentary which fills two thirds of the present Scattered sources, capable of throwing light upon John’s Several years of hard, but congenial work, to collect, sift,Īnd arrange the mass of evidence, drawn from many With this object in view, I have endeavoured, throughout Viiisystematic elucidation of Magna Carta the new stores of However, has hitherto been done towards applying to the Of social and individual life in medieval England. Have been made, profoundly affecting our views of everyīranch of law, every organ of government, and every aspect Material has been explored with notable results. Within the last twenty years, in especial, a wealth of new Which has been effected since Coke and Thomson wrote. View of the great advance, amounting almost to a revolution, Have remained so long unfilled is the more remarkable in Gap in our historical and legal literature should On the struggle for constitutional liberty. Of its historical setting, or in the influence it has exercised It in the variety and interest of its contents, in the vividness Magna Carta.” Yet, for that very reason the GreatĬharter is surely worthy to be made the subject of specialĪnd detailed study, since few documents can compete with History of England is little more than a commentary on Is required, since “the whole of the constitutional ![]() In the opinion of Bishop Stubbs that no separate commentary Laborious a task, but seems also to suggest tacit acquiescence This lack of enterprise mayīe due in part to a natural reluctance to undertake so ![]() Thomson, published respectively in 16, and Serious attempt has yet been made to supersede, or evenĪdequately to supplement, the works of Coke and Richard Written from the standpoint of modern research. No Commentary upon Magna Carta has hitherto been ![]()
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