Synopsis
No English king has suffered a worse press than King John: Bad King John, the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood, Magna Carta - but how to disentangle myth and truth?
John was the youngest of the five sons of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, who, on the death of his brother Richard the Lionheart in 1199, took possession of...
Details
12 March 2015456 pages
9780230772465Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Jaunty, authoritative . . . [a] fine, timely study of English history's greatest pantomime villain.Dan Jones, Sunday Times
Hugely enjoyableBBC History Magazine
Scholarly and readable . . . the John that emerges is still a tyrant, but a more complex figure in a complex time.Daily Telegraph
Restores complexity to the myth of John as a cruel, unstable ogre.Sunday Telegraph
