This week, we take our first trip to the Middle Ages with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves! Join us for a discussion of the extremely troubled production of this film, the "real" Robin Hood, POWs in the Crusades, and more!

Sources:

Film Production:

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102798/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Roger Ebert Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/robin-hood-prince-of-thieves-1991 

The "Real" Robin Hood:

In Our Time, "Robin Hood" (2003) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005492h

Holt, James. "Ye have broken the charm." The Times Literary Supplement, April 24, 1998, 18+. The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2014 (accessed July 19, 2020). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200490920/TLSH?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=TLSH&xid=13168e10.

http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/langland/pp-pass5.html and here https://robinhoodlegend.com/piers-plowman/

Seal, Graham. "The Robin Hood principle: Folklore, history, and the social bandit." Journal of Folklore Research (2009): 67-89. Hobsbawm, Eric. "Social bandits: reply." Comparative studies in Society and History 14, no. 4 (1972): 503-505.

Holt, J. C. "The Origins and Audience of the Ballads of Robin Hood." Past & Present, no. 18 (1960): 89-110. Accessed July 21, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/649889.

https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode

POWs in the Crusades:

John J Robinson, Dungeon, Fire, and Sword: The Knights Templar During the Crusades. M. Evans and Co, 2009.

Sean Anthony, "The Domestic Origins of Imprisonment: An Inquiry Into An Early Islamic Institution," Journal of the American Oriental Society 129, 4 (2009).

Malcolm Barber, The Crusader States. Yale University Press, 2012.

Aharon Ben-Ami, Social Change in a Hostile Environment: The Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem. Princeton University Press. 1969.

Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives. Edinburgh University Press, 1999.