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Author | : Lawrence du Garde Peach |
Publisher | : Ladybird |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780723294023 |
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.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
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The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England, son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of Henry III of England.
Author | : S. D. Church |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780851159478 |
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.
Author | : Dan Jones |
Publisher | : Apollo |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9781838934828 |
An illustrated portrait of English society in the year of Magna Carta, from best-selling author Dan Jones.
Author | : Marc Morris |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1605988863 |
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.
Author | : William William Shakespe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2021-11-03 |
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The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England, the son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of Henry III of England.
Author | : John Ruskin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1895 |
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Author | : Frank McLynn |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 689 |
Release | : 2008-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786726296 |
Legend and lore surround the history of kings Richard and John, from the ballads of Robin Hood and the novels of Sir Walter Scott to Hollywood movies and television. In the myth-making, King Richard, defender of Christendom in the Holy Land, was the "good king," and his younger brother John was the evil usurper of the kingdom, who lost not only the Crown jewels but also the power of the crown. How much, though, do these popular stereotypes correspond with reality? Frank McLynn, known for a wide range of historical studies, has returned to the original sources to discover what Richard and John, these warring sons of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, were really like, and how their history measures up to their myth. In riveting prose, and with attention to the sources, he turns the tables on modern revisionist historians, showing exactly how incompetent a king John was, despite his intellectual gifts, and how impressive Richard was, despite his long absence from the throne. This is history at its best-revealing and readable.
Author | : Wilfred Lewis Warren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300073737 |
First published by Methuen in 1981.
Author | : Dan Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9781510030527 |
"1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history - saw England engulfed by crisis. Dan Jones's vivid account of the vicissitudes of feudal power politics and the workings of 13th-century government is interwoven with an exploration of the lives of ordinary people: how and where they worked, what they wore, what they ate, and what role the Church played in their lives."--Back cover.