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Article: Robin Hood: The Forresters Manuscript (British Library Additional Manuscript 71158).(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2000
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Robin Hood: The Forresters Manuscript (British Library Additional Manuscript 71158), ed. Stephen Knight (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998), xxix + 173 pp. ISBN 0-85991-436-4. 30.00 [pounds sterling].
To judge from these three volumes (together with other signs such as the establishment of a Research Centre at the University of Rochester) academic interest in Robin Hood has blossomed in the last decade. But, though everyone readily acknowledges Robin Hood's medieval Origins, his actual presence in the Middle Ages is surprisingly attenuated and much of the scholarship on him has thus fallen within the purview, not of professional medievalists, but of those interested ...