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King John

Marc Morris
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Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781605988863

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King John is one of those historical characters who needs little in the way of introduction. If readers are not already familiar with him as the tyrant whose misgovernment gave rise to Magna Carta, we remember him as the villain in the stories of Robin Hood. Formidable and cunning, but also cruel, lecherous, treacherous and untrusting. Twelve years into his reign, John was regarded as a powerful king within the British Isles. But despite this immense early success, when he finally crosses to France to recover his lost empire, he meets with disaster. John returns home penniless to face a tide of criticism about his unjust rule. The result is Magna Carta – a ground-breaking document in posterity, but a worthless piece of parchment in 1215, since John had no intention of honoring it. Like all great tragedies, the world can only be put to rights by the tyrant’s death. John finally obliges at Newark Castle in October 1216, dying of dysentery as a great gale howls up the valley of the Trent.

King John

S. D. Church
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Author : S. D. Church
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : England
ISBN : 0851159478

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The controversial reign of King John is the subject of the essays collected in this book, which offers a challenging reappraisal of a number of its most important aspects.

Magna Carta and the England of King John

Janet Senderowitz Loengard
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Author : Janet Senderowitz Loengard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835486

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Magna Carta and the England of King John by Janet Senderowitz Loengard Pdf

Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and as such has long been central to English constitutional and political history. This volume uses it as a springboard to focus on social, economic, legal, and religious institutions and attitudes in the early thirteenth century. What was England like between 1199 and 1215? And, no less important, how was King John perceived by those who actually knew him? The essays here analyse earlier Angevin rulers and the effect of their reigns on John's England, the causes and results of the increasing baronial fear of the king, the "managerial revolution" of the English church, and the effect of the ius commune on English common law. They also examine the burgeoning economy of the early thirteenth century and its effect on English towns, the background to discontent over the royal forests which eventually led to the Charter of the Forest, the effect of Magna Carta on widows and property, and the course of criminal justice before 1215. The volume concludes with the first critical edition of an open letter from King John explaining his position in the matter of William de Briouze. Contributors: Janet S. Loengard, Ralph V. Turner, John Gillingham, David Crouch, David Crook, James A. Brundage, John Hudson, Barbara Hanawalt, James Masschaele

The Reign of King John

Sidney Painter
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Author : Sidney Painter
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421435169

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Originally published in 1949. Lacking the warlike bluntness of his predecessor, Richard the Lionheart, John came to the throne of England at a time when economic forces in the realm were threatening to undermine the very basis of feudal power. The Reign of King John covers his attempts to adjust a political system to cope with this threat and at the same time to assert the hegemony of the monarchy over its chief rivals—the barons and the church—made his reign one of particular importance and significance in English history.

King John of Canada

Scott Gardiner
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Author : Scott Gardiner
Publisher : Douglas Gibson Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551991825

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King John of Canada by Scott Gardiner Pdf

A hilarious political satire in the tradition of Mordecai Richler. This is a funny, biting political satire set in the not-too-distant future. A series of minority governments, and endless Quebec referendums (designed to lose narrowly, to keep the money coming) have left Canada almost ungovernable. When the Governor General resigns in disgrace and the House of Windsor implodes in London, a media baron launches the idea of a Canadian king or queen elected by lottery. It starts as a joke — except that the lucky winner, King John, a bright and charismatic guy from Toronto, knows exactly what people want. Soon Quebec is gone, while Toronto’s surprise bid to leave Canada is averted by shifting his official residence, the new seat of power, to the Toronto waterfront. Many good things happen, and the politicians go along for the ride. And the blockades of Native lands are ended for good, after John is heroically wounded keeping the peace at risk to his life. His popularity soars and Canadian morale soars with it. Soon the rest of the world is taking notice of this model leader. In the United States, the blue states look enviously northward. Then Canada’s king, ignoring assassination threats, goes on a formal visit to Washington. . .

King John

Stephen Church
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Author : Stephen Church
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465040704

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From a renowned medieval historian comes a new biography of King John, the infamous English king whose reign led to the establishment of the Magna Carta and the birth of constitutional democracy King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the middle ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king, Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too. In King John, medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication. As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution -- enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta -- would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own. In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance.

In the Reign of King John

Dan Jones
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Author : Dan Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800240643

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A new, beautifully illustrated edition of Realm Divided, Dan Jones's portrait of Plantagenet England in the reign of King John. 1215 was not just the year of Magna Carta and King John's war with his barons, but a year of crusading and church reform, of foreign wars and dramatic sieges, of trade and treachery; a year in which England was invaded by a French army and London was stormed by angry barons; and the supposedly impregnable castle at Rochester was brought down with burning pig fat. But this was also a year in which life, for most people, just went on. In the Reign of King John thus opens a window onto everyday life in thirteenth-century England: home and church, love and marriage, education and agriculture, outlawry and hunting, food and clothing. It offers a vivid and authoritative portrait – from royal court to peasant wedding – of medieval life in the round, as well as an exhilarating and revelatory exploration of the big themes of politics, warfare, religion, feudalism and the law during a transformative year in English history. Praise for Dan Jones: 'Commanding and piercingly insightful... Packed with moments that make you stop in your tracks' Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year 'When it comes to rip-roaring medieval narratives, Jones has few peers' Sunday Times 'Jones has a terrific eye for humanising stories and the telling detail... It is the snapshots of life as it was lived that make this book so engaging' Daily Telegraph 'Jones is to be congratulated for telling his story with panache and originality. He deserves to be widely read' BBC History Magazine 'Jones expertly guides us through this turbulent period and sheds fascinating light on life in Plantagenet England' Irish Times 'Dan Jones is certainly an entertainer, but also a fine historian who knows how to render scholarship into accessible prose' The Times

King John and Religion

Paul Webster
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Author : Paul Webster
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270293

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A study of the personal religion of King John, presenting a more complex picture of his actions and attitude.

King John and Magna Carta

Lawrence du Garde Peach
King John and Magna Carta Book PDF

Author : Lawrence du Garde Peach
Publisher : Ladybird
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 072329402X

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King John and Magna Carta by Lawrence du Garde Peach Pdf

The Ladybird Book about King John and the Magna Carta is a gem from the Ladybird vintage archive. First published in 1969, this is a classic Ladybird hardback book, packed with information about one of the most important moments in the history of English-speaking people. This new edition, published to mark 800 years since the Magna Carta, is exactly the same as the original, with a dust jacket and beautifully reproduced images. The story of King John and the momentous events he saw take place over his reign are illustrated with twenty-four beautiful full-page pictures.

King John

Ralph V Turner
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Author : Ralph V Turner
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752469010

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King John long ago acquired the epithet 'Bad,' and he is reputed to be the worst of England's kings. Before his death in 1216, his desperate exploitation of his subjects for ever more money had turned him into the mythical monster of Hollywood legend. In marked contrast to his brother Richard, John appeared incompetent in battle, failing to defend Normandy (1202-04), and was unsuccessful in recovering his lost lands in 1214. A continuing crisis was a constant need for money, forcing John to drain England of funds for campaigns in France, demanding unlawful and oppressive new taxes. Adding to his evil reputation was an ill-tempered personality and a streak of pettiness or spitefulness that led him to monstrous acts, including murdering his own nephew. King John's unpopularity culminated in a final crisis, a revolt by the English baronage, 1215-16, aimed at subjecting him to the rule of law, that resulted in his grant of Magna Carta.

King John

John Charles
King John Book PDF

Author : John Charles
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472227027

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King John by John Charles Pdf

Sir Bobby Charlton reckons that if John Charles were playing today, his transfer value would be £70 million; and in a recent poll of Italian football fans, they voted him the greatest foreign player ever to play in their league, ahead of Maradona and Platini. He was equally adept as a centre forward or centre half, and often Juventus would play him up front until he scored, and then move him back into defence to protect the lead. Whether playing for Leeds United, Wales or Juventus, he fully earned his nickname of the 'Gentle Giant', never once being booked or sent off in a 15-year career, and always being the epitome of sportsmanship. KING JOHN recalls not just a vanished era of football, but also highlights what happens to our heroes once they have left the spotlight. It is a warm and moving account from one of football's true legends.

King John (Mis)Remembered

Igor Djordjevic
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Author : Igor Djordjevic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317109068

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King John’s evil reputation has outlasted and proved more enduring than that of Richard III, whose notoriety seemed ensured thanks to Shakespeare’s portrayal of him. The paradox is even greater when we realize that this portrait of John endures despite Shakespeare’s portrait of him in the play King John, where he hardly comes off as a villain at all. Here Igor Djordjevic argues that the story of John’s transformation in cultural memory has never been told completely, perhaps because the crucial moment in John’s change back to villainy is a literary one: it occurs at the point when the 'historiographic' trajectory of John’s character-development intersects with the 'literary' evolution of Robin Hood. But as Djordjevic reveals, John’s second fall in cultural memory became irredeemable as the largely unintended result of the work of three men - John Stow, Michael Drayton, Anthony Munday - who knew each other and who all read a significant passage in a little known book (the Chronicle of Dunmow), while a fourth man’s money (Philip Henslowe) helped move the story from page to stage. The rest, as they say, is history. Paying particular attention to the work of Michael Drayton and Anthony Munday who wrote for the Lord Admiral’s Men, Djordjevic traces the cultural ripples their works created until the end of the seventeenth century, in various familiar as well as previously ignored historical, poetic, and dramatic works by numerous authors. Djordjevic’s analysis of the playtexts’ source, and the personal and working relationship between the playwright-poets and John Stow as the antiquarian disseminator of the source text, sheds a brighter light on a moment that proves to have a greater significance outside theatrical history; it has profound repercussions for literary history and a nation’s cultural memory.

Lionheart and Lackland

Frank McLynn
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Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Random House
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446449257

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Lionheart and Lackland by Frank McLynn Pdf

Anyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets and readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the typecasting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence. But do these popular stereotypes correspond with reality? In this sweeping narrative, celebrated historian Frank McLynn turns the tables on modern revisionist historians and shows these larger-than-life characters as they really were - crusading, fighting vicious wars in France, negotiating with the papacy, engaging in ruthless dynastic intrigue, often against each other: in Richard's case, even holding the kingdom together when fighting in the Holy Land; and in John's, losing Normandy, catastrophically agonising the barons over Magna Carta and losing the Crown Jewels in the Wash.

King John

Wilfred Lewis Warren
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Author : Wilfred Lewis Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300073739

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First published by Methuen in 1981.

King John

Graham E. Seel
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Author : Graham E. Seel
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857285188

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Through contextual analysis and by reassessing the chronicle evidence, 'King John: An Underrated King' presents a compelling reevaluation of the reign of King John, England's most maligned sovereign. With its thought-provoking analysis of the key issues of John's reign, such as the loss of the French territories, British achievement, Magna Carta, relations with the church, and civil war, the volume presents an engaging argument for rehabilitating King John's reputation. Each chapter features both narrative and contextual analysis, and is prefaced by a timeline outlining the key events of the period. The volume also contains an array of maps and diagrams, as well as a collection of useful study questions.