The Court of Beast and Bough: Contesting the Medieval English Forest in the Early Robin Hood Ballads

After King William created the New Forest in the twelfth century, the English monarchy sought to define the vert, both legally and ideologically, as a site in which the king’s rights were vigorously enforced. In the romance literature of England, the forest was treated as an exclusive chivalric test...

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Main Author: Chiykowski, Peter
Language:en
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14177