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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450839303321

Autore

Pollard A. J

Titolo

Imagining Robin Hood [[electronic resource] ] : the late-medieval stories in historical context / / A.J. Pollard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-280-28126-X

9786610281268

0-203-00552-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Classificazione

15.01

15.70

Disciplina

820.9/351

Soggetti

English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

Robin Hood (Legendary character)

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Literature and society - England - History - To 1500

Literature and history - England - History - To 1500

Ballads, English - England - History and criticism

Outlaws - England - History - To 1500

Outlaws in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Texts and context -- Yeomanry -- A greenwood far away -- Crime, violence and the law -- Religion and the religious -- Fellowship and fraternity -- Authority and the social order -- History and memory -- Farewell to merry England.

Sommario/riassunto

A.J. Pollard takes us back to the earliest surviving stories, tales and ballads of Robin Hood, and re-examines the story of this fascinating figure. Setting out the economic, social and political context of the time, Pollard illuminates the legend of this yeoman hero and champion of justice as never before.Imagining Robin Hood questions:what a 'yeoman' was, and what it meant to be a fifteenth-century EnglishmanWas Robin Hood hunted as an outlaw, or respected as an



officially appointed forest ranger?Why do we ignore the fact that this celebrated