King John
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King John
(The medieval world / general editor, David Bates)
Longman, 1994
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-285) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780582067264
Description
Here is the first serious reassessment of John's reign (1199-1216) which was a turning point in the development of England, with the loss of Normandy, baronial rebellion, and the granting of Magna Carta. It sets John in his full contemporary context, as both man and monarch, stressing throughout the importance of his vast French territories. Turner's rounded portrait of a fascinating but flawed personality will richly reward scholars, students and armchair medievalists alike.
Table of Contents
List of Genealogical tables and maps Editor's preface Acknowledgements 1. King John in context 2. Young John in his Brothers' shadows 3. The Angevin Domains and John's accession 4. Crises of John's reign: continuing financial problems 5. Crises of John's reign: the loss of Normandy and failure to recover it 6. Crises of John's reign: the struggle with the papacy 7. Crises of John's reign: increasing baronial discontent 8. Culmination of crises: Magna Carta and Civil War 9. John, his contemporaries and our contemporaries Bibliography Genealogical table and maps Index
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: hbk ISBN 9780582067271
Description
This book is part of a series which provides the student, scholar and general reader with authoritative short studies of key aspects and personalities in the medieval world. This book provides a re-assessment of the life and reign of King John (1167-1216, r.1199-1216). John's reign was a turning-point in the development of England: it saw the loss of Normandy, bitter conflict with the papacy, baronial rebellion, and the granting of Magna Carta with all its consequences for the future. Turner sets John in his full personal context, as a member of the turbulent Angevin family; in his full political context, as ruler of Normandy, Anjou, Aquitaine and Ireland as well as England; and in the context of his time, since contemporary values and expectations of kingship were very different from our own today. He aims to present a more balanced picture of John than the older view that condemned him on the grounds of his personal immorality and the more recent rehabilitations of his reputation based on his supposed administrative genius.
The book makes use of a new historical field - the history of childhood - to understand the flaws in John's adult personality (though avoiding the speculative excesses of psycho-history). It also incorporates recent advances in our economic knowledge of the times, which have revealed how John's finances were bedevilled by inflationary pressures which were beyond the understanding of him and his contemporaries and it gives due weight to John's continental dominions and his role on the European stage.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 King John in his context - a comparison with his contemporaries. Part 2 Young John in his brothers' shadows: John's childhood and youth
- John during Richard I's reign
- John's succession to the throne. Part 3 The Angevin domains on John's accession: the nature of the Angevin "Empire"
- the Anglo-Norman realm
- greater Anjou and Aquitaine. Part 4 Crises of John's reign - continuing financial crisis: the Angevin financial crisis, c. 1180-1220
- King John's financial innovations. Part 5 Crises of John's reign - the loss of Normandy and failure to recover it: the campaign of 1202-04
- John's attempts to recover his continental possessions
- John and the British Isles. Part 6 Crises of John's reign - the struggle with the Papacy: King John and the Church in England and Normandy before 1205
- the disputed Canterbury election, interdict, and excommunication, 1205-13
- peace with the Pope and after. Part 7 Crises of John's reign - increasing baronial discontent: the changing position of the baronage in Angevin England
- rival views of kingship among king, "curiales", and baronage
- King John and government "per judicium"
- formation of a baronial opposition party. Part 8 Culmination of crises - Magna Carta and civil war: confrontations culminating in rebellion
- the "Great Charter" and its meaning
- renewed civil war and French invasion. Part 9 John, his contemporaries and our contemporaries.
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