Robin Hood: An Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism book by Stephen Knight

Description: Robin Hood: An Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism book by Stephen Knight : Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. Format: Hardcover Author: Stephen Knight ISBN: 9780859915250 Condition: Used - Very Good Westcove UK offer a 100% money back guarantee. If for any reason you are not happy with your transaction, please let us know and we will do whatever we can to resolve your issues. About the book >.>.> Biblical exegesis has left the Gest strictly alone, probably because the exe- getes have more pressing things to do. Still, the religious or ecclesiastical ele- ments in the poem are noteworthy at various levels. A devout rebel, the king of the forest, at war with the establishments of church and state, plays Good Samaritan to a member of the other side. Robin Hood and Little John are another David and Jonathan. (It is true that they are equally another Gil- pamesh and Enkidu, and so on through a list of heroic bonded males, not all of them with Christian associations.) The Knight confronts a good prior and a bad abbot, in another structural balance, Robin (like outlaws in the Legenda Aurea and similar collections") worships Mary but is murdered by a prioress who loves another knight. The legend of Eustace the Monk (forest renegade. cutlawed nobleman, and trickster, one of his disguises is that of a potter, cf. Child 121) is sometimes cited as an analogue to the Robin Hood ballads, and a number of motif-analogues in early exempla and miracles of Mary link his story to Robin Hood's. The miraculous return of a loan (Gest 248) reflects Proverbs 19:17 ("He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord, and that which he hath given will he pay him again') as paraphrased in Piers Plowman B VIII 82-83 and elsewhere. It would seem that as a Christian poem the Gest is a more crowded hunting-ground than some other late- medieval pieces that have been more diligently searched for game. We are not complaining of the neglect, but noticing an emptiness that might some day be filled. (MP)

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