大英博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (大英博物館Instagram)「📜 Magna Carta or the ‘Great Charter’ was signed #OnThisDay in 1215. King John, the crowned figure depicted in this engraving, approved the Magna Carta after facing a political crisis caused by rebelling barons in his court. The document sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, establishing for the first time that everybody, including the king, was subject to equality under the law. It covers practical matters from fishing rights to inheritance, but its first clause relates to the freedom of the church. It states that the English Church must be free from royal interference, and was probably added at the insistence of Stephen Langton, the then Archbishop of Canterbury. Some rights established within Magna Carta proved highly influential in later centuries. Most famously, the 39th clause gave all ‘free men’ the right to justice and a fair trial. Some of Magna Carta’s core principles are echoed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the European Convention on Human Rights (1950). 🔎Joseph Strutt (17491802). ‘A monk handing a cup to King John inside a church’, copied from a 13th century illuminated manuscript in the @britishlibrary. Engraving in brown ink, around 1793. #BritishMuseum #MagnaCarta」6月15日 20時00分