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Welcome to the History Extra Podcast. Today we've got the final episode of our Sunday series on Magna Carta, exploring its legacy across subsequent centuries. And if you've enjoyed this series, join us next Sunday when we'll be examining the life, legend and legacy of one of British history's most famous monarchs and Elizabeth. I don't miss that. But for now, it's back to Emily Briffet and Nicholas Vincent for the last word on Magna Carta.
Emily Briffett (1:03)
Politicians invoke it, activists wield it, and legal thinkers debate what it can still offer our modern world. But what does Magna Carta actually mean today?
Emily Briffett (1:14)
I'm Emily Briffet and I'm joined by historian Professor Nicholas Vincent.
Emily Briffett (1:19)
In this fourth and final episode of our series on the charter, we're going to be considering its long afterlife, tracing how a narrow medieval settlement morphed into a legendary document that still speaks to our ongoing struggle over power, justice and freedom.
Emily Briffett (1:35)
Welcome back to this, our fourth episode. Nicholas, hello. It's a pleasure to have you back. We are going to be talking all about the legacy of Magna Carta. This is something we've been building to over the course of the series and it's something that keeps coming up again and again. But if we go back to the 13th century, what was the immediate impact of Magna Carta on the the 13th century mindset?
Professor Nicholas Vincent (1:59)
It's there constantly when people object to a king or what a king is up to. They are aware that there is a precedent set by Magna Carta and that this in a sense, is an ongoing process. And you begin to get the emergence of these books of statutes, books of law. Before this, we don't really have books of law. We've got guides how you do the law, but we haven't actually got the laws themselves in book form in quite this way. But from the 13th century onwards, we get books in which the latest laws laid down by the kings of England are set down in writing and they always begin with Magna Carta. It is the great, great, great grandfather of all law. Ever since in English terms So it'd
