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 Pres 2003 Pp ix, 213 $7500 ISBN 0-85115-933-8

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