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British Outlaws of Literature and History : Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Figures From Robin Hood to Twm Shon Catty

By Alexander L. Kaufman (ed)

Book information

Publisher
McFarland
Year
2011
ISBN
9780786485123
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
577 kB (590351 bytes)
Pages
272\0
Topic
History
Time added
2016-06-06 16:03:04
criminalshistory of crime in BritainSocial History

Description

The medieval outlaws of Britain maintain a hold on the present-day imagination, judging by their presence in literature and on film. Exploring the nature of both historical and fictional outlaws, these twelve critical essays survey the literary, historical, and cultural environments that produced them, namely the medieval and early modern periods. Divided into three parts, the text examines the historical records of real outlawed men and women and the representation of Jews in medieval Britain as possible outlaws, outlaws associated specifically with Wales, and the popular figure of Robin Hood and the context of the late medieval poems and plays that feature him as a prominent figure.

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