单词 | mad parliament |
释义 | > as lemmasMad Parliament Mad Parliament n. [after post-classical Latin insane Parliamentum (see quot. 1274)] English History (a name given to) the meeting of the barons at Oxford in 1258, which passed the ‘Provisions of Oxford’. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of deliberative or legislative assembly > [noun] > meeting of barons (Oxford, 1258) Mad Parliament1565 1274 in T. Stapleton Liber de Antiquis Legibus (1846) 37 Hoc anno fuit illud insane Parliamentum apud Oxoniam.] 1565 J. Stow Summarie Eng. Chrons. f. 90 The kyng..helde a parliament at Oxenford, which was after called the madde parliament. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xiv. §176. 74 On the 11th of June [1258], at Oxford, the Mad Parliament, as it was called by Henry's partisans, assembled. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 492/2 He played a conspicuous part in the reign of Henry III., notably in the Mad Parliament of 1258, and died at Amiens in 1260. 2012 R. Shepherd Westminster viii. 64 This ‘Mad Parliament’, as it was later nicknamed by royalists, vested power in a council of 15 barons and bishops, and appointed Hugh Bigod to the revived post of justiciar, or chief minister. < as lemmas |
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