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Magna Carta and the Medieval World
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on January 14, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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fields, game, boundaries, slower, sheep, wealthy, 9, cloth, Nottingham, monarchy, ruled, 1215, localized, Flanders, oil, well, feudal, free, unpopular, Italy, shires, slaves, 1220, 3, John, soil, manor
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England 800 years ago when the Magna Carta was signed
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differences
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communication much             
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society was much more                   
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much less crowded,    million compared to today's 60 million
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the landscape peppered with villages
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surrounded by wide open             
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tilled by the peasantry
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a small proportion were         
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not             , but tied to the land
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worked on the land
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produced a surplus most of which was turned over to those who            England
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the aristocracy
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land owners
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dwellings
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kings lived in castles
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knights lived in            houses
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cathedrals
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Salisbury Cathedral
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begun in          just after the Magna Carta
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built in 38 years
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economy
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economically less developed than more advanced areas of continental Europe where the            industry flourished
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Flanders
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Northern           
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England had a cloth industry but less industrialized
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but England had           
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exported wool to Flanders
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wool was like        is today
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England had it
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Flanders wanted it
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because of wool, England was a                country
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governed by a powerful                 
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a rural society
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the fruits of wealth were the fruits of the         
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London
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today:    million
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13th century: 40,000 people
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people could fit in a small sports stadium
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Magna Carta
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the product of
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relatively wealthy society
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mainly because of wool exports to                 
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country where the monarchy was a dynamic force
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England was         -governed and politically advanced compared to its European counterparts
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a "much governed country"
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King         
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known for signing the Magna Carta in          which promised
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the protection of church rights
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protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment
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access to swift justice
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limitations on              payments to the Crown
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England's administration in 1200
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divided into             , or counties, which describe the same thing
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chief office of the king in each county was the sheriff
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in charge of local tax collection
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the reason he was so bitterly                   
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like the Sheriff of                      in the Robin Hood legends
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densely forested
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a third to a quarter of England was covered by forest
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it had its own law
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law was oppressive
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if you were caught hunting the king's         
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imprisonment
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mutilation
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this explains phrases in the Magna Carta limiting the forest's                     

People:

######################### (1166-1216)
Known for signing the Magna Carta in 1215 which promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown
  • King John was given the nickname of Lackland because, unlike his elder brothers, he received no land rights in the continental provinces
  • yet the failed rebellion of his elder brothers between 1173 and 1174 made him the favorite child of the reigning monarch, King Henry II
  • although he has been described as "hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general" he is generally described critically in his capacity of a king, showing "distasteful, even dangerous personality traits, such as pettiness, spitefulness and cruelty"
  • these negative qualities provided extensive material for fiction writers in the Victorian era, and John remains a recurring character within Western popular culture, primarily as a villain in films and stories depicting the Robin Hood legends
Magna Carta and the Medieval World