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ISBN
9780500289358
Book Title
Robin Hood : Third Edition
Item Length
8.8in
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Publication Year
2011
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1in
Author
J. C. Holt
Features
Revised
Genre
History, Social Science
Topic
Folklore & Mythology, Europe / Great Britain / General
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
21.9 Oz
Number of Pages
292 Pages

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The legend of Robin Hood began more than 600 years ago. The man, if he existed at all, lived even earlier. In this definitive work, Professor Sir James Holt, one of Britain's premier historians and author of the standard work on the Magna Carta, unravels pure invention from real possibility and offers the results of some thirty years of research. He assesses the evidence for the historical Robin Hood and finds that the tale originated with the yeomen and hangers-on of the households of noblemen and gentry in the later Middle Ages. Parts of the story that we now take for granted--Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, Robin as robber of the rich and giver to the poor, even Sherwood Forest--played little or no part in the original tales, and were added as the centuries passed and the legends grew. The legend of Robin Hood has enthralled people from the first ballads to contemporary movies. Holt reconstructs the historical basis of the stories but never loses sight of the human imagination that sustained them. This edition includes new illustrations and The Gest of Robyn Hood, one of the oldest surviving tales.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Thames & Hudson
ISBN-10
0500289352
ISBN-13
9780500289358
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1559928

Product Key Features

Book Title
Robin Hood : Third Edition
Author
J. C. Holt
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Folklore & Mythology, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
292 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
21.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pz8.1
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Edition Number
3
Reviews
"Holt's Work Is Solid and Interesting, Likely to Last." "An Admirable Work of Historical Detection."
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2010-940022
Dewey Decimal
820/.9/351
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes

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  • The Authority on Robin Hood

    Professor J. C. Holt remains the leading authority on Robin Hood. This is the first edition of his work, published in 1982, and does not contain some of the key evidence uncovered in his subsequent second edition of 1988. Professor Holt grew up in the region close to Barnsdale, where many of the original stories of Robin Hood are based. His work covers the literary evidence, including early mention in "Piers Plowman" and such tales as "Robin Hood and the Monk" and "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne". Holt looks at all candidates for the "real Robin Hood", including a Robert Hod, aka "Hobbehod" who appears in records of 1225-1226. There are other worthy works on the illustrious outlaw, but Holt's work is still the premier scholarly effort.