TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Dan
TI  - A realm divided: a year in the life of Plantagenet England 
SN  - 9781781858820 (hbk.) :
AV  - DA208 
U1  - 942.033 JON 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Head of Zeus
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - John, 1199-1216
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1154-1399
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N2  - 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
ER  -