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Autore |
Pollard A. J |
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Titolo |
Imagining Robin Hood : the late-medieval stories in historical context / / A.J. Pollard |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-59538-7 |
1-280-28126-X |
9786610281268 |
0-203-00552-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (301 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-265) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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