Magna Carta

''David Carpenter deserves to replace Sir James Holt as the standard authority, and an unfailingly readable one too.'' Ferdinand Mount, TLS

''An invaluable new commentary'' Jill Leopore, New Yorker

With a new commentary by David Carpenter

"No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor wil...