King John In Fact Fiction

Author : Ruth Coons 1893- [From Wallerstein
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017677683
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book King John in Fact and Fiction written by Ruth Coons 1893- [From Wallerstein and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ruth Coons 1893 Wallerstein
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781372291579
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book KING JOHN IN FACT & FICTION written by Ruth Coons 1893 Wallerstein and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ruth Wallerstein
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342455027
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King John in Fact and Fiction written by Ruth Wallerstein and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ruth Wallerstein
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260973757
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King John in Fact and Fiction (Classic Reprint) written by Ruth Wallerstein and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from King John in Fact and Fiction If we would understand the John of literary tradition we must first envisage the real John as he appeared to historians of his own time and later. Though they may be biased, they present his life and character as fact, not as fiction. These chroniclers and annalists fall into three groups: those who record events as they happened; those who write long enough after the events they treat to have gained a perspective but who may have lived through the event and who may certainly have much original in formation from various sources; and lastly, compilers who, while rarely independent or individual, may give in a sense a broader view since they represent the body of fact as currently accepted.x The conception of John arrived at from this study aflords a standard to which we can refer the several literary presentations of his figure and character and thereby understand their wide divergences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605988863
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King John written by Marc Morris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King John is one of those historical characters who needs little in the way of introduction. If readers are not already familiar with him as the tyrant whose misgovernment gave rise to Magna Carta, we remember him as the villain in the stories of Robin Hood. Formidable and cunning, but also cruel, lecherous, treacherous and untrusting. Twelve years into his reign, John was regarded as a powerful king within the British Isles. But despite this immense early success, when he finally crosses to France to recover his lost empire, he meets with disaster. John returns home penniless to face a tide of criticism about his unjust rule. The result is Magna Carta – a ground-breaking document in posterity, but a worthless piece of parchment in 1215, since John had no intention of honoring it. Like all great tragedies, the world can only be put to rights by the tyrant’s death. John finally obliges at Newark Castle in October 1216, dying of dysentery as a great gale howls up the valley of the Trent.

Author : Stephen Church
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0465040705
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King John written by Stephen Church and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a renowned medieval historian comes a new biography of King John, the infamous English king whose reign led to the establishment of the Magna Carta and the birth of constitutional democracy 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.

Author : Ruth Coons Wallerstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King John in Fact and Fiction written by Ruth Coons Wallerstein and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graham E. Seel
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857285181
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King John written by Graham E. Seel and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through contextual analysis and by reassessing the chronicle evidence, 'King John: An Underrated King' presents a compelling reevaluation of the reign of King John, England's most maligned sovereign. With its thought-provoking analysis of the key issues of John's reign, such as the loss of the French territories, British achievement, Magna Carta, relations with the church, and civil war, the volume presents an engaging argument for rehabilitating King John's reputation. Each chapter features both narrative and contextual analysis, and is prefaced by a timeline outlining the key events of the period. The volume also contains an array of maps and diagrams, as well as a collection of useful study questions.

Author : Danna R Messer
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526729326
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joan, Lady of Wales written by Danna R Messer and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For the Age of Princes, an era defined by ever-increased threats of foreign hegemony, internal dynastic strife and constant warfare, the comings and goings of women are little noted in sources. This misfortune touches even the most well-known royal woman of the time, Joan of England (d. 1237), the wife of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd, illegitimate daughter of King John and half-sister to Henry III. With evidence of her hand in thwarting a full scale English invasion of Wales to a notorious scandal that ended with the public execution of her supposed lover by her husband and her own imprisonment, Joan’s is a known, but little-told or understood story defined by family turmoil, divided loyalties and political intrigue. From the time her hand was promised in marriage as the result of the first Welsh-English alliance in 1201 to the end of her life, Joan’s place in the political wranglings between England and the Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd was a fundamental one. As the first woman to be designated Lady of Wales, her role as one a political diplomat in early thirteenth-century Anglo-Welsh relations was instrumental. This first-ever account of Siwan, as she was known to the Welsh, interweaves the details of her life and relationships with a gendered re-assessment of Anglo-Welsh politics by highlighting her involvement in affairs, discussing events in which she may well have been involved but have gone unrecorded and her overall deployment of royal female agency.

Author : Laurence Housman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.PF/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King John of Jingalo written by Laurence Housman and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: