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Robin Hood

The Early Poems, 1465-1560 : Texts, Contexts, and Ideology

By: Thomas H. Ohlgren,Lister M. Matheson

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Robin Hood

The Early Poems, 1465-1560 : Texts, Contexts, and Ideology

By: Thomas H. Ohlgren,Lister M. Matheson

While references to Robin Hood began to appear as early as the thirteenth century in legal records, the earliest surviving poems did not appear in manuscripts and early printed books until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Several fourteenth-century allusions in the works of William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer suggest that the rymes of Robyn Hood were widely circulating by the 1370s, but, it is vital to note, none of these late fourteenth-century works survives. A better approach, Thomas H. Ohlgren argues, is to focus on what has actually survived rather than on what might have existed. As a result, the poems Robin Hood and the Monk and Robin Hood and the Potter, which survive in two different Cambridge manuscripts of the last third of the fifteenth century, and A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode, which was printed at least seven times in the sixteenth century, must receive pride of place in the canon because they have a physical reality as material artifacts - in short, they exist and provide valuable information about the places and times of their composition and dissemination.

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286

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University of Delaware Press

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0874139643

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9780874139648

Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives

By: Ruth Lister

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Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives

By: Ruth Lister

The second edition of this classic text substantially revises and extends the original, so as to take account of theoretical and policy developments and to enhance its international scope. Drawing on a range of disciplines and literatures, the book provides an unusually broad account of citizenship. It recasts traditional thinking about the concept so as to pinpoint important theoretical issues and their political and policy implications for women in their diversity. Themes of inclusion and exclusion (at national and international level), rights and participation, inequality and difference are thus all brought to the fore in the development of a woman-friendly, gender-inclusive theory and praxis of citizenship.

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323

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230802532

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9780230802537

Icons of the Middle Ages [2 volumes]

Rulers, Writers, Rebels, and Saints [2 volumes]

By: Lister M. Matheson

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Icons of the Middle Ages [2 volumes]

Rulers, Writers, Rebels, and Saints [2 volumes]

By: Lister M. Matheson

From Thomas Becket to Charlemagne, from Leif Erickson to Count Dracula, this series of biographical essays separates truth from legend as it explores the lives of some of the most accomplished and influential figures of medieval history. Drawing on the latest research, Icons of the Middle Ages: Rulers, Writers, Rebels, and Saints examines the lives of some of the most remarkable personalities of the Medieval Era—powerful, ruthless, compassionate, brilliant people who remain widely influential today. Each portrait in this extraordinary gallery sets its subject in the context of their world, revealing what we really know about their lives, their iconic status in their own times, and their lasting legacies in our time. Readers will encounter fascinating individuals devoted to the pursuit of power (Richard III), to freedom (Robert the Bruce), to philosophy and religion (Maimonides; Thomas More), and to the arts (Dante; Hildegard of Bingen). Additional chapters explore life in the medieval castle and the advent of siege warfare—two defining developments in the Middle Ages.

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730

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1573567809

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9781573567800

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Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives

Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives

Icons of the Middle Ages [2 volumes]

Icons of the Middle Ages [2 volumes]

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