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1215: The Year of Magna Carta read and sign the Magna Carta properly. However, there are some negative reviews. An anonymous reviewer from Brown University states, “I learned more from reading the Magna Carta reproduced at the back of this book than I did from the book itself. There's a lesson there, somewhere, about the value of source documents.” He continued to state that 1215 was merely a book on life in Medieval England, and gave hardly any information about the Magna Carta itself. Other critics have similar opinions of the book. Critic Robert Heydt states that the book is deceiving (deceptive) in its title and