John Penguin Monarchs by Nicholas Vincent

King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years yet his entire reign is usually reduced to one image of the villainous monarch outmanoeuvred by rebellious barons into agreeing to Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Ever since John has come to be seen as an archetypal tyrant. But how evil was he In this perceptive short account Nicholas Vincent unpicks Johns life through his deeds and his personality. The youngest of four brothers overlooked and given a distinctly unroyal name John seemed do Hardback