FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY’S DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
AND DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE present
AN ICON OF LIBERTY:
MAGNA CARTA AT 800
LECTURE &
NOVEMBER 5-6, 2015
PANEL
DISCUSSION 5TH FLOOR WIMBERLY LIBRARY, FAU BOCA RATON
Magna Carta and the Medieval English Nobility
Thursday, November 5, 4 pm, 5th Floor, Wimberly Library, FAU Boca Raton
Ralph V. Turner, Professor Emeritus, Florida State University
Turner has written four books on British history: Magna Carta, King John:
England’s Evil King?, The English Judiciary in the Age of Glanville and Bracton,
and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France, Queen of England.
TURNER
The History of Magna Carta in England
and the English-Speaking World
BRESLOW
LOWE
Friday, November 6, noon, 5th Floor, Wimberly Library, FAU Boca Raton
Panel discussion by FAU’s British historians: Boyd Breslow, Associate Professor;
Ben Lowe, Professor and Chair, Fellow of The Royal Historical Society; and
Douglas Kanter, Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Studies Program,
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
KANTER
Top image: King John faces the prospect of Magna Carta (Courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress)
For more information, call 561-297-3840 or visit www.fau.edu/history
Events are free and open to the public and will be accompanied by an exhibit on the
history of English and American liberties drawn from the Marvin and Sybil Weiner
“Spirit of America” Collection.