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King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England; The Road to Magna Carta
By Morris, Marc
- ISBN
- 9781605988856 9781605988863
- Publisher
- Pegasus
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Reviewed on September 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
Morris (The Norman Conquest) tells the story of King John (1166–1216), not the fictional villain passed down to us through The Adventures of Robin Hood, but "the real King John" located in "the evidence from his own day." That man, Morris maintains—building on works by William Marshal, S.D. Church, R.V. Turner, and others—"was not nearly as bad as his…chroniclers" maintained. While...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
