Historians on Robin Hood: The Outlaw’s Legend in the Later Middle Ages

2025/03/02 by William J. F. Hoff · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

paper · doi:10.1080/0078172x.2025.2470717

openalex publication_date 2025/03/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15

Abstract

As an academic field, modern Robin Hood studies can be seen as having two distinct phases. The first was inaugurated in the early 1960s after series of papers in Past and Present debated the origin...

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