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



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Autore: Pollard A. J Visualizza persona
Titolo: Imagining Robin Hood [[electronic resource] ] : the late-medieval stories in historical context / / A.J. Pollard Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/351
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Classificazione: 15.01
15.70
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
Titolo autorizzato: Imagining Robin Hood  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-28126-X
9786610281268
0-203-00552-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450839303321
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