King John in Fact and Fiction (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book King John in Fact and Fiction (Classic Reprint) written by Ruth Wallerstein and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from King John in Fact and Fiction If we would understand the John of literary tradition we must first envisage the real John as he appeared to historians of his own time and later. Though they may be biased, they present his life and character as fact, not as fiction. These chroniclers and annalists fall into three groups: those who record events as they happened; those who write long enough after the events they treat to have gained a perspective but who may have lived through the event and who may certainly have much original in formation from various sources; and lastly, compilers who, while rarely independent or individual, may give in a sense a broader view since they represent the body of fact as currently accepted.x The conception of John arrived at from this study aflords a standard to which we can refer the several literary presentations of his figure and character and thereby understand their wide divergences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.