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John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford (1442-1513). 'The Foremost Man in the Kingdom',

This substantial work (126,000 words, 292 pages), is based on collection and analysis of a considerable body of material, including a large corpus of primary sources, collected over a decade of exhaustive national and local archival research: private sources and records of government, including extensive use of the complicated, but fruitful records of central law courts. The result is both a political biography of the last great medieval nobleman, and a study of East Anglia, which the earl dominated. It investigates his role in high politics and government, and challenges widely held historiographical beliefs concerning Henry VII and the nobility.