Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood - Knight Stephen
Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition
KORTE INHOUD
The Robin Hood tradition is a rich assembly of exciting stories, more than 500 years old and still thriving. These essays uncover innovative topics like Robin's relation with the cult of archery in the late Middles Ages, the purpose of the recently-discovered 1670s Forresters manuscript of outlaw ballads, and much more.
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2012Uitgever: Brepols Publishers234 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503540546ISBN-13: 9782503540542Koop dit boek tweedehands
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New studies of the changing meaning of the myth of Robin Hood, from the Middle Ages to the present. The Robin Hood tradition is a rich assembly of exciting stories, more than five hundred years old and still thriving. From medieval ballads of yeoman resistance and gentrified Renaissance stories of Lord Robin versus bad King John, the tradition survived lustily into modern film, through which Robin Hood, played by major stars like Fairbanks, Flynn, and Costner, has become a truly international hero of natura...
