Chapter 1: Background and Boyhood
Chapter 2: Early Adulthood
Chapter 3: Buildings and Benefices
Chapter 4: Politics, Finance and High Office, c.1363-69
Chapter 5: Pre-episcopal Career in the Church
Chapter 6: Crises, Decline and Disgrace, 1369-77
Chapter 7: Politics under Richard II - 1377-89
Chapter 8: Politics under Richard II - the last decade
Chapter 9: Bishop of Winchester
Chapter 10: Income, Estates and Expenditure
Chapter 11: Household and Circle
Chapter 12: Collegiate Foundations
Chapter 13: Last Years
Chapter 14: Epilogue
A rounded biography of one of the key-figures of late fourteenth-century England, an acquaintance of Chaucer and a man who wielded immense political power.
Virginia Davis is currently head of the Department of History at Queen Mary, University of London
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Davis has brought to the task expertise on the church and the
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