Medieval Outlaws

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This revised and expanded edition of Medieval Outlaws gathers twelve outlaw tales, introduced and freshly translated into Modern English by a team of specialists. Accessible and entertaining, these tales will be of interest to the general reader and student alike.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 21 juillet 2005
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602353893
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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Medieval Outlaws Twelve Tales in Modern English Translation
Revised and Expanded Edition
Edited by Thomas H. Ohlgren Parlor Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Medieval outlaws : twelve tales in modern English translation / edited by Thomas H. Ohlgren.-- Rev. and expanded ed.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: A book of medieval outlaws.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-932559-62-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 1-932559-63-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 1-932559-64-7 (adobe ebook) 1. Literature, Medieval--Translations into English. 2. Outlaws--Literary collections. I. Ohlgren, Thomas H., 1941- II. Book of medieval outlaws.
PN682.O87M43 2005
823.008--dc22
2005019265
Second printing.
Printed on acid-free paper.
Cover photograph The Robin Hood statue outside Nottingham Castle. Courtesy of Allen Wright.
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition
Preface to Sutton Edition
Frequently Cited References
General Introduction
1 The Outlawry of Earl Godwin
Timothy S. Jones
2 The Deeds of Hereward
Michael Swanton
3 Eustache the Monk
Thomas E. Kelly
4 The Outlaw’s Song of Trailbaston
Carter Revard
5 Fouke fitz Waryn
Thomas E. Kelly
6 Two Tales of Owain Glyndwr
Mica Gould
7 The Tale of Gamelyn
Stephen Knight
8 The Saga of Án Bow-bender
Shaun F. D. Hughes
9 The Hermit and the Outlaw
Alexander L. Kaufman
10 A Gest of Robyn Hode
Thomas H. Ohlgren
11 Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley
Thomas Hahn
12 From The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace
Walter Scheps
List of Contributors 470
Index 471


Illustrations
Cover Art. The Robin Hood statue outside Nottingham Castle. Courtesy Allen Wright.
Fig. 1. From La Vie du Eduouard, fol. 5 v, Cambridge University Library MS Ee.3.59. By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
Fig. 2. Map of the Fenland in the time of Hereward. Courtesy: Michael Swanton.
Fig. 3. The Cornish princess giving the cup to Hereward, from the 1865 magazine edition of Charles Kingsley’s Hereward the Wake.
Fig. 4. Eustache the Monk receiving a magic book from the Devil, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS FR 1553, f. 325 v . Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Fig. 5. An equestrian knight, wielding a long lance, defeats another knight, from Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 16, f. 85. By permission of the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College.
Fig. 6. A sea battle, from Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 16, f. 146. By permission of the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College.
Fig. 7. Map of Wales and the border counties, from Janet Meisel, Barons of the Welsh Frontier: The Corbet, Pantulf, and Fitz Warin Families, 1066–1272, Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1980. Courtesy of the University of Nebraska Press.
Fig. 8. Battle scene, from Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 16, f. 37 r . By permission of the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College.
Fig. 9. Siege of a castle, from Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 16, f. 51 v . By permission of the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College.
Fig. 10. Atrocities perpetrated under King John, from Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 16, f. 44 v . By permission of the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College.
Fig. 11. Knight battles a serpent, from Olaus Magnus, History of the Northern Peoples, Rome, 1555.
Fig. 12. A wrestling match, from Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 16, f. 58. By permission of the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College.
Fig. 13. Map of the northern countries, from Olaus Magnus, History of the Northern Peoples, Rome, 1555.
Fig. 14. A northern seascape, from Olaus Magnus, History of the Northern Peoples, Rome, 1555.
Fig. 15. Archery practice, from Olaus Magnus, History of the Northern Peoples, Rome, 1555.
Fig. 16. A forest of pine trees, from Olaus Magnus, History of the Northern Peoples, Rome, 1555.
Fig. 17. “Robyn stode in Bernesdale,/ And lenyd hym to a tre,” from John Mathew Gutch, A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, vol. 1 (London, Longman, 1847), p. 145.
Fig. 18. Sir Richard at the Lee repays his loan to the abbot, from John Mathew Gutch, A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, vol. 1 (London, Longman, 1847), p. 158.
Fig. 19. Little John, disguised as Reynolde Grenelef, meets the Sheriff, from John Mathew Gutch, A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, vol. 1 (London, Longman, 1847), p. 168.
Fig. 20. Robin Hood and the high cellarer of St. Mary’s Abbey, from John Mathew Gutch, A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, vol. 1 (London, Longman, 1847), p. 178.
Fig. 21. Robin rescues the wounded Little John, from John Mathew Gutch, A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, vol. 1 (London, Longman, 1847), p. 190.
Fig. 22. Sir Richard’s wife begs a boon from Robin, from John Mathew Gutch, A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, vol. 1 (London, Longman, 1847), p. 196.
Fig. 23. Robin recognizes King Edward, from John Mathew Gutch, A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, vol. 1 (London, Longman, 1847), p. 203.
Fig. 24. “Robyn slewe a full grete harte,” from John Mathew Gutch, A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, vol. 1 (London, Longman, 1847), p. 213.
Fig. 25. Robin Hood’s grave at Kirklees Priory, from John Mathew Gutch, A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, vol. 1 (London, Longman, 1847), p. 10
Fig. 26. Frontispiece to Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough and William of Cloudesley. Courtesy of the Pepys Library, Magdalene College Cambridge.
Fig. 27. Portrait of William Wallace from an engraving of unknown date. Courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Fig. 28. The execution of William de Marisco, from Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 16, f. 155 v . By permission of the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College.


Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition
The hardback edition of Medieval Outlaws: Ten Tales in Modern English [ISBN 0–7509–1862–4] was originally published by Sutton Publishing in 1998, followed by the paperback edition in 2000. The revised and expanded edition incorporates a number of changes. In addition to updating the notes and bibliographies, the contributors vetted their chapters and silently corrected minor errors. Also, Timothy S. Jones extensively revised his chapter, “The Outlawry of Earl Godwin,” by adding a new translation from Walter Map’s De Nugis Curialium, which recounts some trickster exploits of the rebellious Anglo-Saxon earl.
We have also added two new chapters. To document the rebellion and outlawry of the Welsh patriot Owain Glyndwr ( c. 1354–1415), Mica Gould translated excerpts from a fifteenth-century continuation of Randulf Higden’s Polychronicon and William Wynne’s seventeenth-century The History of Wales. Alexander L. Kaufman , in addition, translated the late fifteenth-century poem, “The Hermit and the Outlaw,” which relates how an unnamed outlaw is inspired during a Good Friday Mass to confess his sins and accept what he mistakenly assumes is an easy penance—to forgo the thing he likes least.
Another change involves the placement of the illustrations. Instead of grouping them together in two gatherings, they have been integrated into the texts they illustrate. For permission to publish photographs and other illustrative materials, I thank the Bibliothèque Nationale Paris; Cambridge University Library; Corpus Christi College Cambridge; the Courtauld Institute of Art; Magdalene College Cambridge; the Scottish National Portrait Gallery; and the University of Nebraska Press. I also thank Allen Wright for the cover image and Michael Swanton for the illustration and map in his chapter.
I also thank the members of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies for their continuing support and for their helpful exchanges on the Robin Hood Email Discussion List. Frequent correspondents include Alan T. Gaylord, Thomas Hahn, David Hepworth, Dean Hoffman, Stephen Knight, John Marshall, Helen Phillips, Lois Potter, Lorraine K. Stock, and Allen W. Wright. According to the listserv administrator, John Chandler, “ROBINHOOD-L is a private listserv maintained at the University of Rochester. It is open to all those with an interest in Robin Hood, the history of the legend, the uses of the myth, its social, economic, political intersections, and the broad cultural meanings of particular texts and performances,