Historical topics

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-12. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-01-29.

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)
• 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
• Moseley, Walter Michael. An Essay on Archery, describing the Practice of that Art in all Ages and Nations (Worcester; London, 1792)
  • Moseley, Walter Michael. An Essay on Archery (Wakefield, 1974)
• Moseley, [Walter Michael]. 'History of the English Long-Bow', Universal Magazine, vol. XC (1792), pp. 242-47; except from the 1792 monograph.
• 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, criminals, outlaws and outlawry

• Appleby, John C., ed.; Dalton, Paul, ed. Outlaws in Medieval and Early Modern England: Crime, Government and Society C. 1066–c. 1600 (Farnham, Surrey, 2009)
• 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
• Curtis, J. Lewelyn. 'Robes and Fees in the Days of Robin Hood', Notes & Queries, Series 1, vol. VI (1852), pp. 479-80
• Gorski, Richard. 'Justices and Injustice? England's Local Officials in Later Middle Ages', in: Appleby, John C., ed.; Dalton, Paul, ed. Outlaws in Medieval and Early Modern England: Crime, Government and Society C. 1066–c. 1600 (Farnham, Surrey, 2009), pp. 55-74
• Gregory-Abbott, Candace. 'Sacred Outlaws: Outlawry and the Medieval Church', in: Appleby, John C., ed.; Dalton, Paul, ed. Outlaws in Medieval and Early Modern England: Crime, Government and Society C. 1066–c. 1600 (Farnham, Surrey, 2009), pp. 75-89
• Harlan-Haughey, Sarah. 'Forest Law Through the Looking Glass: Distortions of the Forest Charter in the Outlaw Fiction of Late Medieval England', William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal. vol. 25 (2016), pp. 549-89
• 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
• Kleineke, Hannes. 'Poachers and Gamekeepers: Four Fifteenth-Century West Country Criminals', in: Appleby, John C., ed.; Dalton, Paul, ed. Outlaws in Medieval and Early Modern England: Crime, Government and Society C. 1066–c. 1600 (Farnham, Surrey, 2009), pp. 129-148
• Mackay, Charles. 'Popular Admiration for Great Thieves', Bentley's Miscellany. American Version, vol. 8 (Jul.–Dec. 1841), pp. 406-11. Discusses famous European thieves. For Robin Hood see pp. 407, 408.
• 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.
• Pringle, Patrick. Stand and Deliver: the Story of the Highwaymen (London, 1951). For significant criticism, see: [Freeman, Gwendolen], review. 'Lives of Crime', The Times Literary Supplement (13 Apr. 1951), p. 225
  • Pringle, Patrick. Stand and Deliver: the Story of the Highwaymen (New York, [1951])
  • Pringle, Patrick. Stand and Deliver (New York, 1991)
  • Pringle, Patrick. Stand and Deliver: the Story of the Highwaymen (San Francisco, ©2016)
• Shaw, Brent D. 'Bandits in the Roman Empire', Past and Present, No. 105 (1984), pp. 3-52
• Stewart, Susan. 'Outlawry as an Instrument of Justice in the Thirteenth Century', in: Appleby, John C., ed.; Dalton, Paul, ed. Outlaws in Medieval and Early Modern England: Crime, Government and Society C. 1066–c. 1600 (Farnham, Surrey, 2009), pp. 37-54

Sheriffs

• Holt, J. C. 'Philip Mark and the Shrievalty of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in the Early Thirteenth Century', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, vol. LVI (1952), pp. 8-24
• IRHB: Sheriffs of Nottingham.

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