‘What shall these bowes do?’ : the gift and its violence in A Gest of Robyn Hode

This essay proposes that gift exchange in Middle English tales of outlawry serves to negotiate problems of violence and social conflict endemic to late medieval England. Repeated scenes of giving reaffirm ‘fellowship’ as an oft-noted ideal of this literature, but gifts also work as a form of symboli...

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Main Author: Wadiak, Walter.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99905
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16215
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English