Name: Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
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Author: Dan Jones
ISBN: 9780143108955

portada Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

Type

Physical Book

Author

Dan Jones

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9780143108955

Synopsis "Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty "

"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." --Antonia Fraser From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets, a lively, action-packed history of how the Magna Carta came to be--by the author of Powers and Thrones. The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles--even its language--can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange document and how did it gain such legendary status? Dan Jones takes us back to the turbulent year of 1215, when, beset by foreign crises and cornered by a growing domestic rebellion, King John reluctantly agreed to fix his seal to a document that would change the course of history. At the time of its creation the Magna Carta was just a peace treaty drafted by a group of rebel barons who were tired of the king's high taxes, arbitrary justice, and endless foreign wars. The fragile peace it established would last only two months, but its principles have reverberated over the centuries. Jones's riveting narrative follows the story of the Magna Carta's creation, its failure, and the war that subsequently engulfed England, and charts the high points in its unexpected afterlife. Reissued by King John's successors it protected the Church, banned unlawful imprisonment, and set limits to the exercise of royal power. It established the principle that taxation must be tied to representation and paved the way for the creation of Parliament. In 1776 American patriots, inspired by that long-ago defiance, dared to pick up arms against another English king and to demand even more far-reaching rights. We think of the Declaration of Independence as our founding document but those who drafted it had their eye on the Magna Carta.

Dan Jones

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Dan Jones (Reading, 1981) es un reconocido historiador, periodista, presentador de televisión y autor superventas británico, especializado en la Edad Media. Se graduó en el Pembroke College de Cambridge, donde fue discípulo del historiador David Starkey. Jones es célebre por acercar la historia medieval al gran público a través de un estilo divulgativo, dinámico y ameno.

Es autor de obras aclamadas internacionalmente como Los Plantagenet, Los Templarios: auge y caída de los guerreros de Dios, Los cruzados: la épica historia de las guerras por Tierra Santa y Poder y tronos: una nueva historia de la Edad Media. Sus libros han vendido más de dos millones de ejemplares y se han publicado en más de 20 idiomas.

Además de su faceta literaria, Jones ha presentado diversos documentales de televisión, destacando la popular serie de Netflix Secrets of Great British Castles (Secretos de los grandes castillos británicos). También es el creador y presentador del podcast semanal This Is History. En años recientes, ha incursionado en la ficción histórica con la trilogía Essex Dogs, centrada en la Guerra de los Cien Años. Su trabajo se caracteriza por un profundo rigor documental combinado con una narrativa vibrante.

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