16th Century… Female Highwaymen 18 Oct 201518 Oct 2015 Highway robbery is predominantly thought of as a male-gendered crime, and it is true that the vast majority of those found in the dock at the Old Bailey in eighteenth-century…
15th Century… Recidivism in “A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode” (c.1450)? 4 Sep 20154 Sep 2015 Recidivism is one of the most fundamental concepts in criminal justice. It refers to a person's relapse into criminal behavior, often after the person receives sanctions or undergoes intervention for…
15th Century… “A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode” (c.1450): Alleviating the Fear of Crime in Late Medieval & Early Modern England? 20 Aug 201520 Aug 2015 A purely speculative post - part of a series I'm doing on the late medieval/early modern ballad A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode. See my other one here. Disclaimer: I'm…
16th Century… ‘By god that dyed on a tree’: Crux Simplex in “A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode” (c.1450)? 16 Aug 201516 Aug 2015 A purely speculative post; I am not a medieval historian or linguist, and this is just something I've noticed whilst reading A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (1510). I may…
16th Century… The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington (1598) & The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntingdon (1601) by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle. 24 Jun 201524 Jun 2015 In medieval ballads such as A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (c.1470), Robin Hood's rank in society was fairly low. He was a yeoman: Lythe and listin, gentilmen, That be…
17th century… “Bad” Prince John? Representations of the Prince in the Robin Hood Legend, c.1600-c.1800 15 May 201520 Jul 2015 Prince John is now one of the stock villains of movie and television adaptations of the Robin Hood legend. He was played most recently, and excellently, by Rufus Sewell in…
