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Sto caricando le informazioni... Imagining Robin Hood: The Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context (originale 2004; edizione 2004)di A J Pollard (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaImagining Robin Hood: The Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context di A.J. Pollard (2004)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Many studies of Robin Hood either are purely literaryb or devote much inconclusive reasoning to trying to identify a historical Robin Hood based on the scanty pre-1400 sources. Pollard recognizes frankly tat we can know very little about the figure of Robin Hood from that fragmentary early material, so he devotes himself to asking the more answerable question: what can we know about the background and reception of the earliest surviving full-scale Robin Hood poems from the mid-fifteenth to early sixteenth centuries? He looks at these sources themselves and compares them with historical evidence about outlaws, fellowships, religious devotion (the original Robin being a devotee of the Virgin Mary) etc. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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 Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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