The Reign of King John Sidney Painter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Painter, Sidney, 1902-1960.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kings and rulers.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.

Great Britain--History--John, 1199-1216.

Magna Carta.

John, King of England, 1167-1216.

Genre:

History.

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8018-0514-7

OCLC:

1128060444