Inaug.-Diss.--Halle. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. [v]-vi).

Inaug.-Diss.--Halle. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. [v]-vi).

In his book, Robin Hood: An Historical Enquiry, John Bellamy asserts that the lack of a study of the relationship between Robin Hood and the sheriff stems from very little evidence in the ballads and external sources. However, the Robin Hood ballads originate in the fourteenth century when tales of justice and chivalry experienced widespread appeal alongside complaint literature addressing social upheaval bubbling to the surface of English life; why would an audience celebrate an outlaw during this time and long after Gawain and Arthur fade in popularity in the ensuing centuries? There must be more to the relationship between Robin Hood and the sheriff of Nottingham. In order to find a deeper relationship between the outlaw and lawman, the estates model should be used as a framework from which to begin the study of Robin Hood and his shrieval desires and not as a specific exercise of explication and application. By doing so, one can see that Robin Hood does assume the role of the sheriff in the early ballads by assuming his duties of managing the forests, collecting money from individuals within the community, albeit mostly from dishonest clergy, maintaining an army for defense, and settling disputes between various parties within the shire. By examining the shrieval position Robin attempts to fill as imagined through the estates model and the period’s accepted role of sheriff, Robin Hood appears as the idealized form of the sheriff in a real-world environment that could not support the ideal.

Film is a tool frequently used by teachers, but it is often limited to showing students how historical time periods looked like, or as a way for students to search for historical inaccuracies. The aim of this essay is to study whether it is possible to use two films based on the legend of Robin Hood as a way to teach students how to contextualize gender history.   Through the use of film analysis and gender analysis of two different versions of Robin Hood, The adventures of Robin Hood and Robin Hood: Prince of thieves were analyzed. The study has shown that it is indeed possible to use film as a source material for the study of gender history, and that film can tell us a lot about the contemporary view of gender, masculinity and femininity. The didactical analysis concluded that there was no theoretical objection of using film as a source material; however, there are some things that a teacher should be aware of. Although film may be a good way to create a varied study environment and benefit students with reading- and writing disabilities, there is a risk that time-constraints and lack of knowledge of film and its methodology on, behalf of both teachers and students, may make it hard to implement. Although, with a lot of preparation, training and cooperation among teachers these obstacles can be overcome and thus a better educational environment achieved.

This thesis uses the concept of righteous justice found within The Water Margin and the legends of Robin Hood to analyze conflicts of differing ideologies of justice and morality between the ruling class and that of the common people. From these conflicts this thesis further expounds the idea of righteous justice on three points: 1) Examines political themes and portrayals of righteous justice within the content of The Water Margin and the legends of Robin Hood; 2) Performs a character analysis on how characters identify with the authority systems of both natural law and king¡¦s law based upon the western and Chinese ideals of righteous and public justice; 3) Uses the Marxist theory of history to discuss the formation of ideologies of the common people and how they identify with the concept of righteous justice. Further, this thesis examines the way in which the heroes of Mt. Liang and those of Greenwood forest are viewed by the different classes, and from this examination the manner in which the phenomenon of righteous justice becomes viewed as a legitimate form of justice representing the common people. From these points, this thesis discusses the ways in which righteous justice found among both western and Chinese legends creates moral exceptions within a society.

Inaug.-diss. - Freiburg I.B.

Inaug.-diss. - Freiburg I.B.

Inaug.-Diss.--Strassburg.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:20:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Yussef_Daibert_Salomao_Campos_Dissertacao.pdf: 900902 bytes, checksum: 6053b26f2b46b9e7c4ff775aa0e41679 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-15 / The dissertation studies the relationship between social identity and cultural property, especially the intangible heritage one. This is carried out through the study of specific legislation, focusing on the Robin Hood Act, Minas Gerais, which deals with the transfer of state tax to municipalities that provide attention to their cultural property. The main objective of this study is highlight the social identity as a legitimizing protection of cultural heritage in all its categories and demonstrate that we should not build a pyramid hierarchy between the categories of cultural heritage, and more: that national identity is formed by a myriad of local identities, understood as concepts constructed from conflicts and disputes between these identities, which result in certain political practices. In addition, the study analyses how the law acts constructs imagined communities. This can be seen from the analysis of relevant legislation, as well as in comparison to Brazilian legislation, in particular the mining and the law of "Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires", Argentina. Through this study will be seen that cultural heritage is a field of conflict between identities, and that the public practice in this area are a reflection of this standoff / Essa dissertação estuda a relação entre identidade social e patrimônio cultural, em especial o imaterial, tomando como objeto de estudo a legislação específica, com enfoque na Lei Robin Hood, de Minas Gerais, que trata do repasse de tributo do Estado aos municípios que conferem atenção aos seus bens culturais. O objetivo principal da pesquisa é apontar a identidade social como legitimadora da proteção do patrimônio cultural, em todas suas categorias e demonstrar que não se deve montar uma pirâmide hierárquica entre as categorias do patrimônio cultural; e mais: que a identidade nacional é formada por uma miríade de identidades locais, entendidas como conceitos construídos a partir de conflitos e disputas entre tais identidades, que resultam em determinadas práticas políticas. Além disto, buscará mostrar como a lei age como instrumento construtor de comunidades imaginadas. Isso poderá ser observado a partir da análise da legislação pertinente, assim como na comparação entre a legislação brasileira, em especial a mineira, e a lei da Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires , Argentina. Através dessa investigação será visto que o patrimônio cultural é um campo de conflito entre identidades, e que as práticas públicas nessa área são reflexo de tal embate

My dissertation examines the presence of the “North of England” in medieval texts, a presence that complicates the recent work of critics who focus upon an emergent nationalism in the Middle Ages. Far removed from the ideological center of the realm in London and derided as a backwards frontier, the North nevertheless maintains a distinctly generative intimacy within the larger realm as the seat of English history—the home of the monk Bede, the “Father of English History”—and as a frontline of defense against Scottish invasion. This often convoluted dynamic of intimacy, I assert, is played out in those literary conversations in which the South derides the North and vice versa—in, for example, the curt admonition of one shepherd that the sheep-stealer Mak in the Wakefield Master’s Second Shepherd’s Play stop speaking in a southern tongue: that he “take out his southern tooth and insert a turd.” The North functioned as a contested geography, a literary character, and a spectral presence in the negotiation of a national identity in both canonical and non-canonical texts including Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, William of Malmesbury’s Latin histories, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and the Robin Hood ballads of the late Middle Ages. We see this contest, further, in the medieval universities wherein students segregated by their “nacion,” northern or southern, engaged in bloody clashes that, while local, nevertheless resonated at the national level. I argue that the outlying North actually operates as a necessary, if not sufficient, condition for the processes of imagining nation; that regionalism is both contained within and constitutive of its apparent opposite, nationalism. My longue durée historicist approach to texts concerned with the North—either through narrative setting, character, author or textual provenance—ultimately uncovers the emerging dialectic of region and nation within the medieval North-South divide and reveals how England’s nationalist impulse found its greatest expression when it was threatened from within by the uncanny figure of the North. / text