Robin Hood (TRIH ep 192)
1193 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the origins, evolution and cultural afterlife of the Robin Hood legend. They begin with early 15th-century ballads such as Robin Hood and the Monk, noting motifs — Sherwood, archery, the Sheriff, devotion to the Virgin — and the violent, trickster aspects lost in later, child-friendly retellings. They trace how Tudor, Stuart and Victorian writers (including Anthony Monday/Munday, Joseph Ritson and Sir Walter Scott) reshaped Robin into a disposse...
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- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
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