Author: HOLT, JAMES C.
Title: Robin Hood (Revised and Enlarged Edition with 52 Illustrations and 4 Maps)
Description: London: Thames & Hudson, 1983. 0500251096. Second Edition. 1. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0500251096. 223 B&W Photographs (52) and Maps (4) This 2nd Edition is the "Revised and Enlarged Edition with 52 illustrations and 4 maps." In this edition, "the remarkable interest and subsequent research inspired by the book's first publication bears exciting fruit. Professor Holt presents evidence of crucial importance in identifying the original Robin Hood, as well as showing how the exploits of other outlaws contributed to thje legend, and giving an entirely new interpretation of Robin Hood's most famous characteristic - that he robbed the rich in order to give to the poor." J.C. Holt was Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, and was President of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of the widely-used and cited "Magna Carta" (1965) and "Magna Carta and the Idea of Liberty" (1972).. 8vo (9.5 x 6.5"). As New in As New dust jacket .

Keywords: 0500251096 History Medieval Robin Hood