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King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta

Marc Morris

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Description:A rousing and authoritative new biography of the notorious King John, by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Marc Morris.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. 16 pages of color and B&W illustrationsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta. To get started finding King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A rousing and authoritative new biography of the notorious King John, by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Marc Morris.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. 16 pages of color and B&W illustrationsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta. To get started finding King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta

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