The Fourteenth-Century Sheriff: English Local Administration in the Late Middle Ages.(Book Review)

Richard Gorski. The Fourteenth-Century Sheriff: English Local Administration in the Late Middle Ages. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 213. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-933-8.

Scholars have long acknowledged the key role that the English medieval sheriff played as a link between the Crown and its sometimes far-flung localities. Although the office underwent considerable alteration in the three hundred years or so after the Conquest, already in 1100 it had become an indispensable tool in day-to-day county administration, and so it remained in 1400. Gorski's study of the ...

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