Nicholas Vincent on the Magna Carta

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🗓️ 18 May 2015

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Did an 800-year old piece of parchment really change the world? Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Magna Carta, the founding document of English law and liberty. The Magna Carta was repudiated just ten weeks after King John issued it. Yet, its impact is still with us today. In this conversation, Vincent explains what led to the Magna Carta and how its influence remains with us today in England and elsewhere.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:11.0	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:16.0	links and other information related to today's conversation.
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0:23.2	back to 2006.
0:25.4	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:27.4	We'd love to hear from you.
0:29.4	Today is May 11, 2015, and my guest is Nicholas Vincent, Professor of Medieval History at
0:38.4	the University of East Anglia, and the author of Magna Carta, a very short introduction.
0:43.9	Nick, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:45.9	Thank you very much.
0:47.6	This 2015 is the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, which was signed in June of
0:55.4	1215, and I have to confess until reading your book, I knew an embarrassingly small amount
1:01.7	about the Magna Carta.
1:03.0	Other than to suspect, it was important.
1:06.1	I also worry that some of my listeners are in the same boat, which is why you're here.
1:10.5	So let's start with the basics.
1:13.1	What was it physically?
1:14.1	Who was there?
1:15.1	What was it about?
1:18.6	How long was it?
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