A realm divided : a year in the life of Plantagenet England /
by Jones, Dan.
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BookPublisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2015Description: 304 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781781858820 (hbk.) :; 1781858829 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 942.033 JONSubject(s): Great Britain -- History -- John, 1199-1216 | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1154-1399 | History | HistorySummary: 1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history - saw England engulfed by crisis. Weakened by the loss of Normandy, King John faced insurrection by his disgruntled barons. With the assistance of the Archbishop of Canterbury, they drew up a list of their demands. In June, in a quiet Thames-side water-meadow, John attached his regal seal - under oath - to a charter that set limits on regal power. In return, the barons renewed their vows of fealty. Groundbreaking though 'Magna Carta' was, it had scant immediate impact as England descended into civil war that would still be raging when John died the following year. Jones's account of the vicissitudes of feudal power politics and the workings of 13th-century government is interwoven with a exploration of the lives of ordinary people.
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| 942.0309 HAM The Plantagenets: history of a dynasty | 942.0309 WEI Queens of the conquest : England's medieval queens / | 942.031 WEI Queens of the crusades : Eleanor of Aquitaine and her successors, 1154-1291 / | 942.033 JON A realm divided : a year in the life of Plantagenet England / | 942.033 MCG Blood cries afar: the forgotten invasion of England 1216 | 942.033 VIN Magna Carta : a very short introduction / | 942.034 BAL Robin Hood: the English outlaw unmasked |
1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history - saw England engulfed by crisis. Weakened by the loss of Normandy, King John faced insurrection by his disgruntled barons. With the assistance of the Archbishop of Canterbury, they drew up a list of their demands. In June, in a quiet Thames-side water-meadow, John attached his regal seal - under oath - to a charter that set limits on regal power. In return, the barons renewed their vows of fealty. Groundbreaking though 'Magna Carta' was, it had scant immediate impact as England descended into civil war that would still be raging when John died the following year. Jones's account of the vicissitudes of feudal power politics and the workings of 13th-century government is interwoven with a exploration of the lives of ordinary people.
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