Historians on Robin Hood : the outlaw's legend in the later Middle Ages /
Offers a comprehensive thematic introduction to a wide range of medieval writings about the outlaw-hero from a series of different historical perspectives. By the fifteenth century, churchmen were complaining that laypeople preferred to hear stories about Robin Hood rather than to listen to the word...
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, New York :
D. S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell and Brewer Ltd,
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on References to Robin Hood Ballads and Plays
- Part I: Sources and Origins
- 1. The Medieval Legend of Robin Hood: The English Sources
- 2. Dating The Gest of Robyn Hode
- 3. The Robin Hood Names and the Origins of the Outlaw Legend
- Part II: Social Hierarchy and Social Orders
- 4. Robin Hood: Social Hierarchy and Social Mobility
- 5. Robin Hood: Yeoman Status and Yeoman Service
- 6. Robin Hood: Mercantile Hero?
- Robin Hood: Gender, Masculinity and Homosociality
- Part III: Social Conflict
- 8. Robin Hood: Social and Political Protest
- 9. Robin Hood: Social Bandit?
- Part IV: Kingship, Law and Warfare
- 10. Robin Hood: Kingship
- 11. Robin Hood: Law and Justice
- 12. Robin Hood: Warfare and Weapons
- Part V: Piety and the Church
- 13. Robin Hood: Piety, Anticlericalism and the Church
- 14. Robin Hood: Plays and Games
- Part VI: Wales and Scotland
- 15. Robin Hood and the Welsh Outlaw Tradition
- 16. Robin Hood in Scotland
- Appendix The Medieval Ballads of Robin Hood
- Select Bibliography
- Index.