First published at 00:53 UTC on October 7th, 2022.
Lecture 9: No one knows the origins of the hero we’ll discuss in this lecture, Robin Hood. By the time stories about Robin Hood started to appear, he was already an established figure. Paradoxically, this may be one reason he has remained popular wi…
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Lecture 9: No one knows the origins of the hero we’ll discuss in this lecture, Robin Hood. By the time stories about Robin Hood started to appear, he was already an established figure. Paradoxically, this may be one reason he has remained popular with writers: There are so many gaps in his story that it’s easy to write into them.
Another reason people continued to add stories about Robin Hood is that from the start, he looked like a bundle of contradictions. As we’ll see, these were apparent contradictions only, but they still provoked writers to provide explanations.
Essential Reading:
Anonymous (Knight and Ohlgren, eds.), A Gest of Robyn Hode.
Suggested Reading:
Dobson and Taylor, eds., Rymes of Robyn Hood.
Holt, Robin Hood.
Keen, The Outlaws of Medieval England.
Lecture 10: https://www.bitchute.com/video/49gdH04pqyuw/
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