In 1215, King John attached his seal to Magna Carta, which was a milestone in the history of liberty. But it was also a year of crusading and church reform, of foreign wars and dramatic sieges, a year in which England invaded by a French Army. As well as describing these upheavals, Dan Jones explores the lives of ordinary people in 13th-century England—how they ate, dressed, worked, lived, and died—to create a gripping portrait of an extraordinary year in English history.