Historical topics

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-12. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-02.

Archery

• Bradbury, Jim. The Medieval Archer (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1985). Important study of the medieval English (military) archer, includes chapter on Robin Hood (ch. 5, pp. 58-70)
• Harris, P. Valentine. Myth and Mystery in Archery History (Reading, ©1985). Not seen
• Hardy, Robert; Blyth, P.H., contrib.; Pratt, P.L., contrib.; Jones, Peter, contrib. Longbow: a Social and Military History (Cambridge, 1976)
• K., A. J. 'On Archery in England', Gentleman's Magazine, vol. CII (1832), pp. 113-16
• K., A. J. 'Archery in Finsbury Fields', Gentleman's Magazine, vol. CII (1832), pp. 209-13
• K., A. J. 'Archery in Finsbury Fields', Gentleman's Magazine, vol. CII (1832), pp. 299-302
• Meyrick, Sam R. 'Archery', Gentleman's Magazine, vol. CII (1832), p. 303
• Meyrick, S. R. 'Archery', Gentleman's Magazine, vol. CII (1832), pp. 599-602
• N., J. G. 'Archery', Gentleman's Magazine, vol. CII (1832), pp. 594-99
• Rogers, Clifford J. 'The Development of the Longbow in Late Medieval England and "Technological Determinism"', Journal of Medieval History, vol. 37 (2011), pp. 321-41.

Audience of early tales

• Holt, J.C. 'The Origins and Audience of the Ballads of Robin Hood', Past & Present, No. 18 (1960), pp. 89-110 (reprinted 1976, 1981 and 1999)
• Tardiff, Richard 1983a

Crime and criminals

• Bellamy, John G. Crime and Public Order in England in the Later Middle Ages (Studies in Social History) (London; Toronto, 1973); includes chapters on 'Crime and Medieval society', 'Misdeeds and misdoers', 'The criminal bands', 'Enforcing the law', 'Accusation and trial', 'Prison, punishment, and pardon'.
  • Bellamy, John G. Crime and Public Order in England in the Later Middle Ages. Reprint (Studies in Social History) (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1990)
  • Bellamy, John G. Crime and Public Order in England in the Later Middle Ages. Reprint (Studies in Social History) (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1993)
  • Bellamy, John G. Crime and Public Order in England in the Later Middle Ages. Reprint (Studies in Social History) (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1996)
• Brewer, Jennifer. 'Let Her Be Waived: Outlawing Women in Yorkshire, 1293-1294', in: Kaufman, Alexander L., ed. British Outlaws of Literature and History (Jefferson, NC, 2011), pp. 28-44
• Hunter, Joseph. 'Notes Respecting Travelling and the Transmission of Treasure chiefly in the Northern Parts of the Kingdom, in the Reigns of Edward I., II., and III., or the Former Half of the Fourteenth Century', in: Anonymous, ed. Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York, communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archæological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, held at York, July, 1846, with a General Report of the Proceedings of the Meeting, and Catalogue of the Museum formed on that Occasion (London and Oxford, 1847), pp. 21-24, discusses the need for guarding money and goods against criminals during transportation in medieval England; in relation to Robin Hood ballads, p. 22
• McCall, Andrew. The Medieval Underworld (New York, ©1979); includes chapters on 'Church, State and Sin', 'Crime and Punishment', 'Bandits, Freebooters and Outlaws', 'Richman, Poorman, Beggarman, Thieves' etc.

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