A Realm Divided, A Year in the Life of Plantagenet Britain

Resumen del libro

1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history - saw England engulfed by crisis. Weakened by the loss of Normandy, King John faced insurrection by his disgruntled barons. With the assistance of the Archbishop of Canterbury, they drew up a list of their demands.

In June, in a quiet Thames-side water-meadow, John attached his regal seal - under oath - to a charter that set limits on regal power. In return, the barons renewed their vows of fealty. Groundbreaking though 'Magna Carta' was, it had scant immediate impact as England descended into civil war that would still be raging when John died the following year.

Dan Jones's vivid account of the vicissitudes of feudal power politics and the workings of 13th-century government is interwoven with a exploration of the lives of ordinary people: how and where they worked, what they wore, what they ate, and what role the Church played in their lives.

Biografía del autor

Dan Jones (1981) es un escritor, presentador de televisión, periodista e historiador especializado en la Edad Media. Estudió en la Universidad de Cambridge, donde fue discípulo de David Starkey. Jones se ha convertido en uno de los historiadores más populares de la actualidad en Reino Unido gracias a sus obras de divulgación histórica y programas de televisión como Secrets of Great British Castles, que se emite en Netflix.