Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• SHERIFFS OF NOTTINGHAM
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• THE UNIVERSAL POPULARITY OF ROBIN HOOD
• Societies ad Museums, Theatre, sport, Humour and Fiction, Restaurants and Inns, Television and Films, Commerce, Advertising
• CHAPTER 1: Fact of Fiction
• CHAPTER 2: The First Mentions of Robin Hood in Literature, Early Chroniclers, the Early Ballads and Their Internal Evidence
• CHAPTER 3: The May Games, Source of Some of the Ballads, How they Corrupt the Facts and Create Several Robin Hoods, Relics and Place Names
• CHAPTER 4: Barnsdale of Sherwood, Ballad Evidence, Watling Street, Basford, The Kings Great Way, Breakdown of Place Names in Ballads
• CHAPTER 5: Sherwood Forest, and Outlaws
• CHAPTER 6: The Named Outlaws and others, Sir Richard At the Lee, Kings, Sheriffs, Some Identified from Records, How Nicknames Make Identification possible
• CHAPTER 7: Maid Marian, Her True Identity, Matilda not a Ballad Name, How Marian Became Matilda, Marian and Waltzing Matilda
• CHAPTER 8: Friar Tuck, His First Mention, A Character only
• CHAPTER 9: Little John, His Reputed Birthplace and Graves, Fallacy of a Thirty-Inch Thighbone, His Physical Stature, Character and Identity
• CHAPTER 10: The Robin Hood Relics and Landmarks
• CHAPTER 11: Existing Claims to the Identity of Robin Hood Examined
• CHAPTER 12: Robin Hood, Yeoman or Nobleman, Middle English Word Meanings Give Clues, Chaucer on Tragedies, Oral Tradition Supports Noble Birth
• CHAPTER 13: The Real Robin Hood and His Story, His Family, Earldom, Cause of Outlawry and Pardon
• CHAPTER 14: The Death of Robin Hood, His Grave and Epitaph, Elizabeth Staynton
• CHAPTER 15: Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Subscribers
• Acknowledgements