'The Cradle of our Liberties': Magna Carta in History and Myth
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Nov 03, 2021
from 06:00 PM to 07:30 PM |
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| Where | Zoom Link in Description |
| Contact Name | Janna Tajibaeva |
| Contact Phone | 502-852-2247 |
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Free and open to the public. Registration required. |
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Andrew Rabin is Professor of English with research interests in the law and literature of early medieval England. Magna Carta, issued in 1215 by King John as a concession to his barons, is often cited as the source of many of the liberties we hold most dear—trial by our peers, habeas corpus, and rule by the consent of the governed, to name a few. Yet many of those reading Magna Carta come away disappointed. The rhetoric is bland and legalistic—nothing like the stirring cadences of the Declaration of Independence or the preamble to the Constitution—and many of the rights it is said to enshrine are mentioned only allusively if at all. This talk will examine the myth of Magna Carta and the real historical document behind it. In doing so, we will see what it really means to call Magna Carta ‘the cradle of our liberties.’
Wednesday, November 3, 6:00 PM
For questions, please, contact Janna Tajibaeva at 852-2247 or janna@louisville.edu
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