Hi! Will do, thanks.

Hi everyone!

Can you recommend me a book (ideally, one) on the origin of personal rights and property in the Western world?

From various sources, we can perhaps see the origin of the rights' protection and movement towards libertarianism is starting from the Magna Carta. Then, common people were not only slaves/serfs, like in the Russian Tsardom/Empire, but also villeins with their own land and property, and who were able to pay to become free men by paying to their lord. And when you changed lords, your land and property stay yours. A different mentality of people in service even 800-1000 years ago.

I've been speaking and studying English for 20+ years, and becoming older, I realized that the fundamental basis of Western law - values of rights, respect of personal boundaries, and equality (and, as following, its effect on how people think of themselves and others) - are interesting to me.

Is there perhaps one book that follows these topics of the origin of rights in the established law, Magna Carta, and how this system in law and culture senses developed over 1000 years?

Thanks.