Medieval Coroners

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If you've watched any significant number of crime dramas you've almost certainly come across a coroner who was probably presented as an experienced medical examiner who, if the hero is lucky, has unearthed a key piece of evidence to solve the case. But did you know that coroners have been investigating death since the end of the twelfth century? Learn more right now on Footnoting History.

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Further Reading

Sara Butler, Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England, Routledge, (2015).

R.F. Hunnisett, The Medieval Coroner, Cambridge University Press, (1961).

Medieval Murder Maps, University of Cambridge.

Katharine Park, “The Life of the Corpse: Division and Dissection in Late Medieval Europe” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 50.1 (1995): 111-32.

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​​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)