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Dr Paul Webster is currently Lecturer in Medieval History and Project Manager of the Exploring the Past adult learners progression pathway at Cardiff University.
When one digs deeper the caricature of John the Monster dissolves into a much more nuanced picture of John the human.
HISTORY
This is an excellent book. It makes an important contribution to a dynamic field of research and is both scholarly and accessible. Happily, the book is also well written and readable, and is to be thoroughly recommended.
NOTTINGHAM MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Will indeed prove useful to those studying the Angevin kings.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Webster's thorough, judicious, and carefully argued study does a fine job of looking past the intensely negative spin of John's contemporaries and showing us a man who, whatever his unknowable internal beliefs may have been, conformed far more closely than previously appreciated to the expected religious practices of his day.
PARERGON
Webster's book is likely to be the definitive work on King John's religion or irreligion for many years. His bibliography testifies to his knowledge of both primary and secondary sources, and his impressive notes refer to every charitable act of John. Anyone working on aspects of John's relations with the church will turn first to this book.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
Never before has the evidence for John's relationship with the church and religion been so comprehensively mined, and the case for his defence so extensively put.
SEHEPUNKTE
When one digs deeper the caricature of John the Monster dissolves into a much more nuanced picture of John the human.
HISTORY
This is an excellent book. It makes an important contribution to a dynamic field of research and is both scholarly and accessible. Happily, the book is also well written and readable, and is to be thoroughly recommended.
NOTTINGHAM MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Will indeed prove useful to those studying the Angevin kings.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Webster's thorough, judicious, and carefully argued study does a fine job of looking past the intensely negative spin of John's contemporaries and showing us a man who, whatever his unknowable internal beliefs may have been, conformed far more closely than previously appreciated to the expected religious practices of his day.
PARERGON
Webster's book is likely to be the definitive work on King John's religion or irreligion for many years. His bibliography testifies to his knowledge of both primary and secondary sources, and his impressive notes refer to every charitable act of John. Anyone working on aspects of John's relations with the church will turn first to this book.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
Never before has the evidence for John's relationship with the church and religion been so comprehensively mined, and the case for his defence so extensively put.
SEHEPUNKTE