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Robin Hood: man or myth? Spirit of the woods, literary invention or historical reality? The attempt to pin down one of the most familiar figures of English lore has generally become swamped in a mass of speculation or historical aporia. Scholars have tended to turn their attention, with more result, to the study of the corpus of the legends, tracing their history and their interrelation, as well as extrapolating what they can tell us of twelfth- and thirteenth-century England. In this book one of the most authoritative scholars on the period has taken a fresh look at the evidence for an historical Robin Hood, and has come up with some remarkably plausible conclusions about his identity, that of his famous adversary the Sheriff of Nottingham, and even some of Robin's companions.

Author

Bellamy, John G., 1930-

Publisher

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253350152

Subjects

Folklore, Literary Fiction, History