Magna Carta, canon law and pastoral care: excommunication and the church's publication of the charter.
This article argues that the church's strenuous efforts to publicize Magna Carta can only be fully understood when viewed in the context of canon law and pastoral care. The automatic sentence of excommunication that fell on anyone who infringed Magna Carta meant that every Christian in medieval Engl...
| Publicado en: | Historical Research Vol. 89; no. 246; pp. 636 - 651 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Nov2016
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