title: The Medieval Coroner (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History)
author: R.F. Hunnisett
description: The office of coroner was established in England in 1194; it has had an unbroken history, and has been exported to many countries, including the United States. At the zenith of his power, in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, the coroner was concerned with many aspects of law and local administration, and with some of the most tragic and dramatic episodes of medieval life.
zlib_text: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
  
  Series Editors
  
  Owen Davies
  
  School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
  
  Elizabeth T. Hurren
  
  School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
  
  Sarah Tarlow
  
  History and Archaeology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
  
  This limited, finite series is based on the substantive outputs from a major,
  multi-disciplinary research project funded by the Wellcome Trust,
  investigating the meanings, treatment, and uses of the criminal corpse in
  Britain. It is a vehicle for methodological and substantive advances in
  approaches to the wider history of the body. Focussing on the period between
  the late seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries as a crucial period in
  the formation and transformation of beliefs about the body, the series
  explores how the criminal body had a prominent presence in popular culture as
  well as science, civic life and medico-legal activity. It is historically