The Coronation Oath of 1308: The Background of ‘Les leys et les custumes’
Few problems in medieval constitutional history, and perhaps none in English constitutional history, have occasioned more irreconcilably different interpretations than the problem of the meaning and significance of the coronation oath of 1308. Divergent interpretations began in the seventeenth centu...
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Cambridge University Press
1955
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Traditio
Year: 1955, Volume: 11, Pages: 235-257 |
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| Summary: | Few problems in medieval constitutional history, and perhaps none in English constitutional history, have occasioned more irreconcilably different interpretations than the problem of the meaning and significance of the coronation oath of 1308. Divergent interpretations began in the seventeenth century, and they have continued to provide the substance of an interesting historiographical problem ever since. It is doubtful whether complete agreement on all of the specific questions raised by the oath will ever be reached, but at the present stage of debate there are still questions which have neither been raised nor answered. The purpose of this paper is to raise one of these questions and, by providing an answer, to narrow further the limits within which there is still disagreement concerning the oath which Edward II swore at his coronation. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S036215290000636X |