Magna Carta in America

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What does a document written in 1215 in England have to do with the United States? Surprisingly a lot actually! The Magna Carta is thought to have influenced foundational documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But where did this inspiration come from? And why were America's founding fathers so influenced by a charter that King John broke almost immediately after signing it?

In today's episode of Gone Medieval, we bring you an episode from our sister podcast American History Hit to answer all these questions and more. Don Wildman, host of AHH, is joined by our very own Eleanor Janega to explore the influence of this medieval document on the very fabric of the United States.

Gone Medieval is presented by Eleanor Janega and edited by Joseph Knight. The producer is Joseph Knight, the senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Welcome to True Spies.
0:02.0	The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:08.0	Suddenly out of the dark disappear from Lavin.
0:10.0	You'll meet the people who live life under cover.
0:13.5	What do they know?
0:14.6	What are their skills?
0:15.9	And what would you do in their position?
0:18.3	Vengeance felt good.
0:19.8	Seeing these people pay for what they've done felt righteous.
0:24.6	True Spies from Spiescape Studios,
0:27.7	wherever you get your podcasts. Magna Carta is perhaps one of the best known medieval documents and as a result it has an outsized mythology to match its fame.
0:44.4	But is it really the levelizing document we portrayed as?
0:48.0	I'm Dr. Eleanor Yannaga.
0:50.0	And today on Gone Medieval from History Hit,
0:52.0	we're bringing you an episode from our sister podcast, American History Hit,
0:56.0	where I joined Don Wildman to talk about what I believe to be one of the most overrated medieval charters,
1:02.0	and how something that only ever guaranteed
1:05.0	rights for an insignificant handful of people was built up into a revolutionary document,
1:10.7	hundreds of years later, by Americans. It's a story of riches, rich people, and righteous
1:17.2	myths that I cannot wait to dig into. Greetings listeners, this is American History Hit and I'm your host, Don Wildman.
1:34.8	Welcome.
1:35.8	June 15, 2003, which passed about a month ago as I speak, just marked another anniversary of an age old document scribed with quill pen upon
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