Medieval Britain

by H.R. Loyn and Alan Sorrell

On June 15, 1215, King John set his seal to the draft of a great charter - the Magna Carta - which asserted a principle of supreme importance in the history of monarchy: that the king should govern the realm according to the law. What part, then, were the people to play in the making of that law, and how was the law to be enforced if a monarch tried to set it aside? Medieval Britain saw periods of great social, political and economic change. Throughout...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071882153X
• ISBN13: 9780718821531
• Release Date: July 1977
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.1" x 10.2"