Insular and Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts: An Iconographic Catalogue, c. A.D. 625 to 1100 (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) [Hardcover]

Thomas H. Ohlgren (Compiler)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Garland Publishing; 1 edition (January 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824086511
• ISBN-13: 978-0824086510
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
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Thomas H. Ohlgren is Emeritis Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he has taught since 1969 when he received his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan. He has published scholarly articles and books on the Robin Hood legend (see Google Scholar under Ohlgren). His scholarship focuses on the earliest surviving written accounts of Robin Hood, ranging from the chronicles of Andrew of Wynton (c. 1420), John Bower (c. 1440), John Major (1521) and Richard Grafton (1569), to the early ballads and plays, which include Robin Hood and the Monk, Robin Hood and the Potter, the Gest of Robyn Hode as well as several short plays. Ohlgren is less interested in finding the original, historical figure, which he believes does not exist, than in tracing the evolution of the medieval outlaw tale, such as Hereward the Wake, Eustace the Monk, and Fulk fitz Warin, which contain characters, plot elements, and themes too close to be accounted for by coincidence.