HAVE HISTORIANS ALWAYS SAID THE SAME THINGS ABOUT KING JOHN?
1. Why do you think people have had different views about King John?
2. What do you think people thought of John during the Tudor and Victorian eras?
ii. His attitude towards the barons.
iii. Losing land in France.
iv. Arguments with the church.
v. His affairs with other women.
3. How have historian viewed King John from the Tudors through top modern day?
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- Recap: What did people write about John just after his reign?
- Do you think those views have changed since then? Why?
- How does the era that a person lives affect how they may think about John?
2. What do you think people thought of John during the Tudor and Victorian eras?
- Look at the features of the Tudor era on the following sheet. Discuss whether each of these feature were present during the time of John e.g. did people think that way in John's time? Did similar things happen between 1299 & 1216?
- Do the same for the Victorian era.
- Now fill in the following sheet noting down what you think people during these eras would have felt about King John concerning
ii. His attitude towards the barons.
iii. Losing land in France.
iv. Arguments with the church.
v. His affairs with other women.
3. How have historian viewed King John from the Tudors through top modern day?
- Open up this jigsaw. Match up each of the eras (Tudors, Victorians, 1950's-60s and the 1980s-90s) with a picture, a description, quote and reason why historians have viewed John a certain way
- Make a list of the different reasons why views have changed about John since his reign.
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