Magna Carta: How the 1215 Charter Changed Britain and Sparked Ideas of Limited Royal Power

from The Proper British History Podcast: Kings, Queens, Wars, Empire, Politics, Revolutions, Royalty and the Historical Great Britain · host Podily

In June 1215, King John bound himself to the Magna Carta at Runnymede – a charter born from baronial anger over tax and arbitrary rule. The episode looks at what contemporary documents reveal about its clauses, the immediate political fallout in England, and how notions of restrained monarchical authority echoed across Europe, the Levant and the wider world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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