No one does detailed work quite like Alison Weir. She meticulously describes clothing, interiors, architectural work, familial relationships, marriages, everything in her history of Henry VIII and his Court. Wolsey, Cromwell, and Cranmer are described, both professionally and personally, in detail as well as details of how Tudor royal households are set up and maintained (at times there are Households, too). All the intricate twists and turns of patronage, petitioning, and court life are presented in full but the result isn't tedious or boring; Weir manages to maintain a very readable style. Because Weir often alludes to certain historical facts, she tends to move forward and backward in time when describing individual persons and alludes to future events within her narrative so a basic knowledge of Tudor history is assumed. I thought this was a superbly rendered historiography, probably the best one of Weir's I've read so far, and she also provides extensive endnotes and bibliographies.