Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of ConquestJonathan Cape, 2006 - 578페이지 Anyone who has seen 'The Lion in Winter' will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets: the towering, almost psychopathic Henry II, commander of the slaughter of Thomas a Becket, at war with both his wife, the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons (including the subjects of this remarkable book, Richard and John). And readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the type-casting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence. But how much do these popular stereotypes correspond with reality?
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... court life in 1204-05 are notoriously obscure but acrimonious exchanges were frequent . In some men's eyes the factionalism at court and the uncertainty about the future seemed mirrored in the chaos principle at large in Nature , for ...
... courts.97 Since a mass of litigation had previously been dealt with in local or feudal courts , the new inflow of cases into royal courts made the legal system more subject to central control - exactly what John wanted . The other ...
... court around the country to secure a hearing ( clause 17 ) . Clause 18 stated that judges were to hear the assizes of novel disseisin , mort d'ancestor and darrein presentment exactly the sort of jargon that makes the past seem a ...