Robin Hood
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Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiverobinhood0000holt_x2m1
- Internet Archiverobinhood0000holt_c7k7
- ISBN-100500250812
- ISBN-139780500250815
- Goodreads1075579
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- LibraryThing81416
- Library of Congress Control Number82179692
- Library of Congress Control Number81053059
- OCLC Control Number8851800
- OCLC Control Number8520089
- Open LibraryOL3079659M
Classifications
- DDC820/.9/351
- LCCPR2129 .H64 1982
- LCCPR2129 .H64 1982b
Description
The legend of Robin Hood began more than 600 years ago. The man, if he existed at all, lived even earlier. Now Professor James Holt, one of Britain's premier historians and author of the standard work on Magna Carta, unravels pure invention from real possibility and offers the detailed fruits of more than twenty years' research. He brings us closer than ever before to the significance and centuries-long appeal of the Robin Hood legend. He roundly assesses the evidence for the historical "Robin Hood" -- candidates include Hobbehod, tenant of the archbishopric of York and Robert Hood of Wakefield. His conclusion is more somber, but more fascinating, than popular imagination allows: he finds that the tale originated with the yeomen and hangers-on of the households of noblemen and gentry in the later Middle Ages, living in a society never far from violence and expressing through Robin Hood their love of adventure, their discontent and their readiness to idealize lawlessness. Professor Holt's great achievement is not merely to reconstruct the historical basis of the stories, but never to lose sight of the human imagination that sustained them. - Jacket flap.
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People's hero or lawless marauder? Who was the 'real' Robin Hood - or was there none? And how did the legends of a violent era become the romantic tales of today?
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