Four copies of the document were created at the time, one of which was badly damaged in a fire in Now, scientists have used multispectral imaging to reveal for the first time since the damage the details of both the parchment and text. Here's a look at what the researchers found.
A close-up of the Magna Carta, written in Medieval Latin. This document, penned in , required King John of England to give up some of his absolute power and encoded certain rights for feudal barons, including Habeus corpus , or the right to a jury trial.
The Magna Carta was a huge milestone in governance, representing the first time a king had to cede absolute power to the rule of law. Four copies of the Magna Carta were made and stamped with King John's seal in , when the nobility banded together to limit the monarch's absolute power. This one is held at Salisbury Cathedral. Another is at Lincoln Cathedral, and the final two reside in the collection of the British Library in London. All four documents are identical in wording and text, though one of the British Library's was damaged in a fire in The British Library's undamaged copy of the Magna Carta.
King John's attempts to mollify the feudal barons by agreeing to the contract staved off war for only a short period. John was an unpopular king and came into conflict with the nobility over taxes this conflict has been dramatized in many modern versions of "Robin Hood".
He submitted to the Magna Carta, but turned to the Pope for help; the Pope, in turn, nullified the document within a few months. King John ended up bringing about the war's end by dying in , and his young son Henry took the throne. The Magna Carta was reissued with Henry's name replacing John's. Though it would change in content over the decades, the document became an inspiration for the foundation of constitutional law, and parts of it directly inspired the U.
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