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Falling from Grace: Reversal of Fortune and the English Nobility 1075-1455

This 115,000-word monograph (269pp.) emerges from 4 years research. It demonstrates 3 key features of double-weight: (i) scale of primary source base: c. 30 classes of unpublished administrative, financial, legal and political records ; c. 100 published sources, including royal chancery records, chronicles, political/legal tracts, contemporary literature and visual culture; (ii) by integrating a wide range of detailed political, social, legal and cultural history, it articulates a new interdisciplinary framework for understanding the changing nature of later medieval English politics; (iii) chronological range: four centuries, from the aftermath of the Norman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses.