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Category: Antiquarianism

15th Century…

Joseph Ritson’s Discovery of “Robin Hood and the Monk” (1465)

28 Jan 2020
By Stephen Basdeo While researching my book, Discovering Robin Hood: The Life of Joseph Ritson: Gentleman, Scholar, and Revolutionary, I came across some fascinating information. I give below a snippet…
19th Century…

The Life and Work of Victorian Robin Hood Scholar John Mathew Gutch (1776–1861)

13 Jan 2020
By Stephen Basdeo The modern scholarly study of the Robin Hood legend began with the pioneering work of Joseph Ritson who in 1795 published Robin Hood: A Collection of all…
1381…

The History of Thomas Walsingham’s Historia Anglicana traced through Reappearances of Jack Straw’s Last Dying Speech

5 Jul 2019
A paper delivered at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 1–5 July 2019 by Stephen Basdeo The so-called Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was widely reported in various chronicles. The…
1370…

Visions of “Piers Plowman” in the 18th Century

11 Dec 201713 Dec 2017
The best thing about having a Robin Hood theme for this blog is that it allows me to legitimately write about both crime and medievalism (medievalism, as opposed to medieval…
18th century…

The Critical Reception of Mrs. Brown of Falkland’s Robin Hood Ballads

16 Sep 201616 Sep 2016
Paper Presented to the Women's History Network Conference, Leeds Trinity University, 16-17 September 2016. Abstract: The earliest ballads of Robin Hood such as A Gest of Robyn Hode (c.1450) and…
19th Century…

The Chartist Robin Hood: Thomas Miller’s “Royston Gower, or, The Days of King John” (1838)

4 Aug 20164 Aug 2016
The early nineteenth century witnessed two phenomenally successful Robin Hood novels: Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (1819) and Thomas Love Peacock’s Maid Marian (1822). After those two novels, authors took a break…

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