Historians on Robin Hood

STEPHEN H. RIGBY is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University of Manchester, UK. ALEX T. BROWN is Associate Professor of Medieval History at Durham University. DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. Anne Curry is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton, and author of many works on the Hundred Years War, particularly on the battle of Agincourt. She also edited the 1422-53 section of the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England. LOUISA FOROUGHI is Assistant Professor of History at Lafayette College. Helen Fulton is Chair of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol. MARTIN HEALE is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool. KATHERINE J. LEWIS is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield. JOHN MARSHALL is a Senior Research Fellow in Theatre at the University of Bristol. Shannon McSheffrey is Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She has written five books and numerous articles and chapters on aspects of English society, culture, and politics between 1400 and 1550. She is currently at work on the Evil May Day anti-immigrant riot in London in 1517. ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal Palaces. STEPHEN H. RIGBY is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University of Manchester, UK. Andrew M. Spencer is a Senior Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Associate Lecturer of the University of Cambridge. He is a historian of politics and the constitution of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and has written extensively on the constitutional, political, military and social role of the nobility in particular.

The volume is well balanced in presenting readers new to the academic study of the outlaw to its key themes and scholars, while providing new commentary and complications of its own.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgments A Note on References to Robin Hood Ballads and PlaysPART I: SOURCES AND ORIGINS1. The Medieval Legend of Robin Hood: The English Sources - Stephen H. Rigby2. Dating the Gest of Robyn Hode - Stephen H. Rigby3. The Robin Hood Names and the Origins of the Outlaw Legend - David CrookPART II: SOCIAL HIERARCHY AND SOCIAL ORDERS4. Robin Hood: Social Hierarchy and Social Mobility - Alex T. Brown5. Robin Hood: Yeoman Status and Yeoman Service - Louisa Foroughi6. Robin Hood: Mercantile Hero? - Stephen H. Rigby7. Robin Hood: Gender, Masculinity and Homosociality - Katherine Lewis PART III: SOCIAL CONFLICT8. Robin Hood: Social and Political Protest - Shannon McSheffrey9. Robin Hood: Social Bandit? - Stephen H. RigbyPART IV: KINGSHIP, LAW AND WARFARE10. Robin Hood: Kingship - Andrew Spencer11. Robin Hood: Law and Justice - Anthony Musson12. Robin Hood: Warfare and Weapons - Anne CurryPART V: PIETY AND THE CHURCH13. Robin Hood: Piety, Anticlericalism and the Church - Martin Heale 14. Robin Hood: Plays and Games - John MarshallPART VI: WALES AND SCOTLAND15. Robin Hood and the Welsh Outlaw Tradition - Helen Fulton16. Robin Hood in Scotland - Helen Phillips Appendix: Stephen H. Rigby, The Medieval Ballads of Robin HoodSelect BibliographyIndex