Magna Carta: 800 Years of Precisely What?
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Magna Carta: 800 Years of Precisely What? is part of the 2016 Contextual Lecture Series: Taking Liberties.
The Lecture will consider the making and contunuing meaning of Magna Carta. It will also focus upon the great range of celebrations held in 2015 to mark the charter's 800th anniversary, asking what these themselves tell us about the present state of Britain, about the place of Magna Carta in the wider world, and about why Runnymede and the events of 2015 continue to echo around the modern world'.
Nicholas Vincent is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of a dozen books, including Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press). He played a central role both in the sale of Ross Perot's Magna Carta, in New York in 2007, and in 2015 in Magna Carta celebrations held in the UK and around the world
