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Outlaws in medieval and early modern England : crime, government and society, c.1066-c.1600

The subject of outlawry in medieval and early modern English history has attracted relatively little scholarly attention. This volume helps to address this gap in scholarship and encourage further study of the subject by presenting a series of essays, based on original research and covering an extensive period of time
Print Book, English, ©2009
Ashgate, Farnham, England, ©2009
Aufsatzsammlung
184 pages ; 24 cm
9780754658931, 9780754695929, 0754658937, 0754695921
316327181
Introduction / John C. Appleby and Paul Dalton
The outlaw Hereward "The wake" : his companions and enemies / Paul Dalton
Outlawry as an instrument of justice in the thirteenth century / Susan Stewart
Justice and injustice? : England's local officials in the later Middle Ages / Richard Gorski
Sacred outlaws : outlawry and the medieval church
Candace Gregory-Abbott
'Sons of iniquity' : the problem of unlawfulness and criminality amongst professional soldiers in the Middle Ages / Neil Jamieson
Political ideology in the early stories of Robin Hood
A.J. Pollard
Poachers and gamekeepers : four fifteenth-century West Country criminals / Hannes Kleineke
Pirates and communities : scenes from Elizabethan England and Wales / John C. Appleby