Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval.(Further short notices)(Book Review)

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Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval, ed. Helen Phillips (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2005). 197 pp. ISBN 1-85182-931-8. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/55.00 [euro]. This wideranging collection of twelve essays on the Robin Hood legends explores both medieval origins and contexts and the development of the tradition in the Renaissance period and beyond. A number of the essays are revisionist in emphasis. Following Helen Phillips's introduction, Douglas Gray surveys the ways in which the field of Robin Hood studies has developed since the publication of his article ...

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