The Reign of King John / Sidney Painter.

• Author: Painter, Sidney, 1902-1960.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 397 pages))
• Notes: Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; Originally published by Johns Hopkins Press in 1949, Third Printing, 1964, paperbacks edition, 1966

Lacking the warlike bluntness of his predecessor, Richard the Lionheart, John came to the throne of England at a time when economic forces in the realm were threatening to undermine the very basis of feudal power. His attempts to adjust a political system to cope with this threat and at the same tim...