02723oam 22005894a 450 991052470410332120230621140817.00-8018-0514-7(CKB)4100000010460968(OCoLC)1128060444(MdBmJHUP)muse82071(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88948(MiAaPQ)EBC29138903(Au-PeEL)EBL29138903(oapen)doab88948(OCoLC)1526863605(oapen)88948(EXLCZ)99410000001046096820110419h20191966 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Reign of King John Sidney Painter1st ed.Johns Hopkins University Press1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 397 pages))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 LicenseOriginally published by Johns Hopkins Press in 1949, Third Printing, 1964, paperbacks edition, 19661-4214-3515-2 1-4214-3516-0 Includes bibliographical references and indexThe 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.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.Kings and rulersfast(OCoLC)fst00987694Great BritainfastGreat BritainKings and rulersBiographyGreat BritainHistoryJohn, 1199-1216History.Biographies.Electronic books. Kings and rulers.942.033Painter Sidney1902-1960.1203298MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524704103321The Reign of King John2784170UNINA