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King John (Hardcover)
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King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad
kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the middle ages,
Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the
heroic crusader king, Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his
life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of
his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to
the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much
of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come
perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too. In King John,
medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all
its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English
history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's
traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming
increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent
confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to
his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over
the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led
to the king's excommunication. As king of England, John taxed his
people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands
lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure
was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects
rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new
constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying
this constitution--enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta--would go
on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including
our own. In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it
was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta,
the blueprint for good governance.
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