After Runnymede: Revising, Reissuing, and Reinterpreting Magna Carta in the Middle Ages
This symposium on Friday, March 18, hosted by the staff of the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, explored Magna Carta’s legacy between its issuance in 1215 and its revival in the seventeenth century.
Panels and Participants:
Magna Carta’s Dissemination
Janet Loengard, Moravian College, “Magna Carta and the Widow’s Quarantine, Elusive but Enduring”
Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago, “The English Church and Magna Carta”
Paul Brand, University of Oxford, “The First Century of Magna Carta: The Diffusion of Texts and Knowledge of the Charter”
The Religious Dimension of Magna Carta
Thomas McSweeney, College of William & Mary, “Salvation by Statute: Magna Carta, Legislation, and the King’s Soul”
Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin—Madison, “The Great Charter and the Divine Ordeal”
The Later History of the Charter of the Forest
Ryan Rowberry, Georgia State University, “Forest Eyre Justices in the Reign of Henry III”
Sarah Harlan-Haughey, University of Maine, “Forest Law Through the Looking Glass: Distortions and Nonsensicalities in the Absurdist Outlaw Fiction of Late Medieval England”
Magna Carta in the Later Middle Ages
Charles Donahue, Harvard University, “Magna Carta in the Fourteenth Century: From Law to Symbol?”
Anthony Musson, University of Exeter, “The Legacy of Magna Carta: Law and Justice in the Fourteenth Century”
David Seipp, Boston University, “Magna Carta in the Lawless Fifteenth Century”
