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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524704103321

Autore

Painter Sidney <1902-1960.>

Titolo

The Reign of King John /  Sidney Painter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN

0-8018-0514-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 397 pages))

Disciplina

942.033

Soggetti

Kings and rulers

History

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Great Britain

Great Britain Kings and rulers Biography

Great Britain History John, 1199-1216

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

Originally published by Johns Hopkins Press in 1949, Third Printing, 1964, paperbacks edition, 1966

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

The succession -- The king anda the magnates -- The king's servants -- The royal administration -- King John and the church -- King or tyrant -- The seeds of revolt -- Magna Carta -- The civil war.

Sommario/riassunto

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. 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.