In the Reign of King John - A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England

Author(s): Dan Jones

British

A vivid and richly illustrated portrait of English society in the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history. 1215 is chiefly remembered for King John attaching his seal to Magna Carta in a quiet Thames-side water-meadow - a milestone in the history of liberty. But it was also a year of crusading and church reform, of foreign wars and dramatic sieges - a year in which London was stormed by angry barons and England invaded by a French army. As well as describing these upheavals, Dan Jones introduces us to the ordinary people of thirteenth-century England - how and where they worked, what they wore, what they ate, and what role the church played in their lives - to create a vivid gripping portrait of an extraordinary year in English history.


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General Fields

  • : 9781838934828
  • : Head of Zeus
  • : Head of Zeus
  • : 0.866361
  • : October 2012
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  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Dan Jones
  • : Hardback with dustjacket
  • : 2012
  • : English
  • : 942.033
  • : 400