Pocket Magna Carta - 1217 Text and Translation

In a small format gift edition, this provides the original Latin text from the Bodleian's 1217 issue, with modern translation and introduction.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Bruce Barker-Benfield is a librarian in the Special Collections and Western Manuscripts Department at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

Zusammenfassung

The Latin text of Magna Carta (the 1217 issue of Henry III) is reproduced, together with a modern translation and an introduction which traces the background to the making of the charter and its subsequent revisions through the centuries. It also explains how this text has become an enduring symbol of freedom in Britain and throughout the world.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Various
• Mitarbeit: Bodleian Library (Herausgeber), Bodleian Library the (Herausgeber), The Bodleian Library (Herausgeber), Bruce Barker-Benfield (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: The Bodleian Library
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781851244522
• ISBN: 978-1-85124-452-2
• Abmessung: 107 mm x 164 mm x 7 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch