Ebook: Magna Carta in 20 Places

Cover; Title; Dedication; Contents; 1 The Royal Exchange, City of London: A Magnificent Myth; 2 The Fens, Cambridgeshire, England: The Barons on Top; 3 Clarendon Palace, Wiltshire, England: The Flying Monarch; 4 Acre, Israel: Lionheart's Legacy; 5 Angoulême, France: The Child Witch; 6 Mirebeau-en-Poitou, France: The Warrior Queen; 7 Château Gaillard, Normandy, France: Lost!; 8 The Marches, South Wales: Rule by Vendetta; 9 Laxton, Nottinghamshire, England: The Serfs in the Fields; 10 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England: The Smell of Money; 11 Temple Ewell, Kent, England: A Triumphant Humiliation.;Magna Carta in 20 Places is an extraordinary journey from the palaces and villages of England, through the castles and towns of France, via the Middle East and ending in the United States today. Along the way, the book dispels the popular notions that King John was an unredeemed tyrant, the baron's champions of civil liberty, and that Magna Carta was the foundation of democracy and universal freedom. The true story is much more intriguing than a simple fiction of good defeating evil, and the author tries to answer one of the great mysteries about the Charter: why today is it much more enthusia.