{"product_id":"king-john-marc-morris","title":"King John — Marc Morris","description":"\u003cp\u003eMorris's biography of King John treats the standard verdict — cruel, treacherous, incompetent — as a problem to be investigated rather than a conclusion to be illustrated. Drawing on the administrative records of the Chancery as well as the chronicles, he finds a king of considerable energy and administrative capacity whose failures were real but were substantially constructed by baronial opponents with their own interests in a particular narrative. Magna Carta emerges not as the origin of English liberty but as a political document imposed on a king his barons needed to control — and immediately set aside when it proved inconvenient.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"epoch-endorsement\"\u003e'A brilliant reassessment of England's most maligned monarch. Morris writes history with authority and elegance.' — \u003cem\u003eDan Jones\u003c\/em\u003e. 'The best biography of King John yet written.' — \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epoch Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734529073479,"sku":null,"price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/9152\/7751\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_4ccbca86-a1c2-4a3f-a676-2bc00eea7ece.webp?v=1776632052","url":"https:\/\/www.epochbooks.co.uk\/products\/king-john-marc-morris","provider":"Epoch Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}