num_pages: 200
description: Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and as such has long been central to English constitutional and political history. This volume uses it as a springboard to focus on social economic legal and religious institutions and attitudes in the early thirteenth century. What was England like between 1199 and 1215? And no less important how was King John perceived by those who actually knew him? The essays here analyse earlier Angevin rulers and the effect of their reigns on John's England the causes and results of the increasing baronial fear of the king the managerial revolution of the English church and the effect of the ius commune on English common law. They also examine the burgeoning economy of the early thirteenth century and its effect on English towns the background to discontent over the royal forests which eventually led to the Charter of the Forest the effect of Magna Carta on widows and property and the course of criminal justice before 1215. The volume concludes with the first critical edition of an open letter from King John explaining his position in the matter of William de Briouze. Janet S. Loengard Ralph V. Turner John Gillingham David Crouch David Crook James A. Brundage John Hudson Barbara Hanawalt James MasschaeleTable of ContentsIntroduction - Janet S. LoengardEngland in 1215: An Authoritarian Angevin Dynasty Facing Multiple Threats - R V TurnerThe Anonymous of Bthune King John and Magna Carta - John B GillinghamBaronial Paranoia in King John's Reign - David CrouchThe Forest Eyre in the Reign of King John - David CrookThe Managerial Revolution in the English Church - James A BrundageMagna Carta the ius commune  and English Common Law - John HudsonJustice without Criminal Prosecution before Magna Carta - Barbara A HanawaltWhat Did Magna Carta Mean to Widows? - Janet S. LoengardThe English Economy in the Age of Magna Carta - James MasschaeleThe Complaint of King John against William de Briouze [c. September 1210] - David Crouch
language: English
title: Magna Carta and the England of King John
publisher: Boydell Press