Offers a comprehensive thematic introduction to a wide range of medieval writings about the outlaw-hero from a series of different historical perspectives.

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on References to Robin Hood Ballads and Plays
PART I: SOURCES AND ORIGINS
1. The Medieval Legend of Robin Hood: The English Sources - Stephen H. Rigby
2. Dating the Gest of Robyn Hode - Stephen H. Rigby
3. The Robin Hood Names and the Origins of the Outlaw Legend - David Crook
PART II: SOCIAL HIERARCHY AND SOCIAL ORDERS
4. Robin Hood: Social Hierarchy and Social Mobility - Alex T. Brown
5. Robin Hood: Yeoman Status and Yeoman Service - Louisa Foroughi
6. Robin Hood: Mercantile Hero? - Stephen H. Rigby
7. Robin Hood: Gender, Masculinity and Homosociality - Katherine Lewis
PART III: SOCIAL CONFLICT
8. Robin Hood: Social and Political Protest - Shannon McSheffrey
9. Robin Hood: Social Bandit? - Stephen H. Rigby
PART IV: KINGSHIP, LAW AND WARFARE
10. Robin Hood: Kingship - Andrew Spencer
11. Robin Hood: Law and Justice - Anthony Musson
12. Robin Hood: Warfare and Weapons - Anne Curry
PART V: PIETY AND THE CHURCH
13. Robin Hood: Piety, Anticlericalism and the Church - Martin Heale
14. Robin Hood: Plays and Games - John Marshall
PART VI: WALES AND SCOTLAND
15. Robin Hood and the Welsh Outlaw Tradition - Helen Fulton
16. Robin Hood in Scotland - Helen Phillips
Appendix: Stephen H. Rigby, The Medieval Ballads of Robin Hood
Select Bibliography
Index