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3 avril 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.psorbonne.54308
- isbn: 9791035102784
- eisbn: 9791035105792
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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diplomatique européenne histoire constitutionnelle Europe État charte History Medieval & Renaissance Studies HIS037010 HBLCSujets proches
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Björn Weiler, « Thinking about Power before Magna Carta: the Role of History », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.54308
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Magna Carta and similar charters of liberty pose something of a conundrum. There always had been attempts to define what royal power meant. Yet in the second half of the 12th century, starting perhaps with the coronation charter of King Magnus Erlingsson of Norway in the 1160s, we find not so much attempts to codify abstract principles, but, first, to define concrete promises (the exact amount, for instance, that a king could charge for the succession to fiefs from his tenants-in-chief) and, ...