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Wonderfully written and beautifully presented , The Outlaws of Medieval Legend brings the popular heroes of the Middle-Ages to life. Featuring both famous - Robin Hood and William Wallace - and now forgotten rogues such as Gamelyn and Fulke Fitzwarin, this book explains the popularity of these semi-mythical figures, and how their stories appealed to the common people of the Middle Ages.Long unavailable, and now featuring a new introduction from the author, this is the perfect book for anyone with a fondness for medieval history and folklore.… (més)
This was a major study of the English medieval/renaissance outlaw tradition, both historical reality and literary legend, chiefly but not exclusively focused n Robin Hood. The first edition offered an interpretation which got widely criticized by other scholars of the subject, and this edition includes an preliminary recantation by Keen disavowing his original interpretation. However, it still has a lot of valuable background material on the matter of the Greenwood." ( )
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Introduction: some recantations [1977] Since this book first appeared in 1961, there has been a good deal of interest displayed by English historians in the subject of medieval outlaws and the Robin Hood legend.
I The Matter of the Greenwood It was said in the days of medieval romance that there were three matters which were worth a poet's consideration, the matter of Britain, the matter of France, and the matter of Rome the Great.
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Clearly, though, the debates about the significance of that story are not ended; and the quest for the original Robin will no doubt continue too, even though he has so far proved quite as infuriatingly elusive to the nineteenth and twentieth century researchers as the Robin of legend proved to be for the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Wonderfully written and beautifully presented , The Outlaws of Medieval Legend brings the popular heroes of the Middle-Ages to life. Featuring both famous - Robin Hood and William Wallace - and now forgotten rogues such as Gamelyn and Fulke Fitzwarin, this book explains the popularity of these semi-mythical figures, and how their stories appealed to the common people of the Middle Ages.Long unavailable, and now featuring a new introduction from the author, this is the perfect book for anyone with a fondness for medieval history and folklore.
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