Originally published in 1949. Lacking the warlike bluntness of his predecessor, Richard the Lionheart, John came to the throne of England at a time when economi
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 mi
Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and as such has long been central to English constitutional and political history. T