What have historians said about Robin Hood, who he was, and the social and political context in which the early tales emerged?
Robin Hood: The Academic Study of a Legend | Stephen Basdeo
Joseph Ritson’s Discovery of “Robin Hood and the Monk” (1465)
Historians and literary critics previously assumed that Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) had no knowledge of a 15th-century poem of “Robin Hood and the Monk”. They are quite wrong.