Robin Hood The Unknown Templar

Author : John Paul Davis
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780720613391
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robin Hood written by John Paul Davis and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Davis had produced a new portrait of Robin Hood with colourful and unique insights into the era in which he lived.

Author : John Paul Davis
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720618657
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robin Hood: The Unknown Templar written by John Paul Davis and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary hero of Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood, is a figure who has in equal measure attracted and baffled historians for decades. With the first mention of him coming in Old English ballads, it was long assumed that it was almost impossible that he ever existed at all, and that he firmly belonged in the realm of Errol Flynn, Kevin Costner, and even Mel Brooks movies. Only a few historians have dared to venture that Robin of Sherwood was, in fact, a living and breathing human being. Historian John Paul Davis, while undertaking research on the Knights Templar, has uncovered new evidence on the folk hero that suggests that his ties to that order were much closer than previously supposed. Sticking closely to historical sources as well as the ballads, Davis has produced a new portrait of this intriguing figure with colorful and unique insights into the era that he lived in, reckoned by Davis to be at least 100 years closer to our own than previously supposed. Lavishly illustrated throughout, Robin Hood: The Unknown Templar will be of keen interest to anyone who has been even merely charmed by his legend; potentially explosive reading for those with their own theories of who Robin Hood really was.

Author : Tony Molyneux-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956380203
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robin Hood and the Templars written by Tony Molyneux-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nick Rennison
Publisher : Oldacastle Books
ISBN 13 : 1842436376
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robin Hood written by Nick Rennison and published by Oldacastle Books. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative, lively guide through the rich mythology of Robin Hood, across all mediumsEveryone knows the story of England's greatest folk hero, the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. This highly entertaining book begins with the search for the historical Robin, looking at the candidates for the "real Robin Hood" who have been proposed over the years, from petty thieves to Knights Templar, before moving on to examine the many ways in which he has been portrayed in literature and onscreen. He began as the hero of dozens of late medieval ballads, appeared in plays by contemporaries of Shakespeare, and in the Romantic era was reinvented by Walter Scott as a Saxon champion in the struggle against the Normans. During the 19th century, Robin Hood emerged as a hero in children's literature, while more recently he has been portrayed as everything from proto-socialist man of the people to anarchist thug. In the cinema he put in an appearance as early as 1908 and Douglas Fairbanks and then Errol Flynn turned him into the typical hero of Hollywood swashbucklers. In the last 20 years, Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe have provided their own very different interpretations of the character. On the small screen, Robin has been the hero of half a dozen TV shows from the 1950s series starring Richard Greene, which used many writers blacklisted by Hollywood, via the well-remembered Robin of Sherwood in the 1980s, to the recent BBC series. Robin Hood is still very much with us, as the subject of graphic novels and computer games. Robin is an archetypal hero who, it seems, can never die. This engaging book charts his life so far.

Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445656027
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robin Hood written by John Matthews and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration into the myths surrounding the figure of Robin Hood

Author : Peter Staveley
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035835754
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robin Unhooded written by Peter Staveley and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two great mysteries of English history – who was the real Robin Hood and who killed William II, ‘Rufus’, in the New Forest, in 1100? ROBIN unHOODed presents new evidence in solving these unanswered questions of our history. Perhaps the most in-depth, innovative study of these mysteries for decades, Peter Staveley’s ground breaking book provides totally fresh and startling hypotheses - once the hood is off. The search for Robin’s true identity has led to a plethora of books over many years and the dust-covers of these volumes might lead one to believe that the mystery was indeed solved. However, not one of the various suggestions put forward have ever seemed truly convincing as fitting the life and character of the man depicted in the original ballads...until now. ROBIN UnHOODed uncovers not only a totally fresh candidate for the man behind the myth but also the identity of many of the other well-known protagonists. This detailed study reveals a man whose life and times would have mirrored precisely those depicted in the original ballads. Placing Robin in an era a full century prior to that timeline of Prince John and King Richard I, so loved by Hollywood directors, Robin is implicated in the death of King William II, Rufus. Startling new evidence regarding the plot to kill the king and a CSI style investigation of the death, reveals previously unseen elements to explain those mysterious events in the New Forest in August 1100 that changed our history. The final tragic dénouement of Robin Hood’s death is revisited in refreshing new detail. Actual personages are identified for the treacherous prioress and Roger, her lover, and a totally new location for the whole débâcle is revealed. This new work of historical detection will shatter many of the myths surrounding the legend of Robin Hood and reveals the real man under the hood.

Author : Shirley Charters
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526715511
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of King John's Treasure written by Shirley Charters and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunday evening, October 9th, 1216. King John is facing continued civil war and a devastating French invasion; treacherous times. We discover him crossing the tidal marshes of the Fenlands of East Anglia. He is about to lose Englands crown jewels, his gem collection, and sackfuls of silver coins with his image on them: a treasure trove.What happened? What was he doing in that remote and windswept place? Why did he take the crown jewels with him? And why did he die so soon afterwards?Eight hundred years of searches by Fenfolk, academics, newspaper magnates, Victorian eccentrics and even an American research company have found nothing. No golden chalice, no pearl studied casket, no coins. Why?We follow King John at that vulnerable time, day by day, and reveal for the first time some surprising and interesting answers to the many questions posed by the mystery of his lost treasure.

Author : John Paul Davis
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720615429
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gothic King written by John Paul Davis and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography in many years of Henry IIIThe son and successor of Bad King John, Henry III reigned for 56 years from 1216, the first child king in England for 200 years. England went on to prosper during his reign and his greatest monument is Westminster Abbey, which he made the seat of his government—indeed, Henry III was the first English King to call a parliament. Though often overlooked by historians, Henry III was a unique figure coming out of a chivalric yet Gothic era: a compulsive builder of daunting castles and epic sepulchres; a powerful, unyielding monarch who faced down the De Montfort rebellion and waged war with Wales and France; and, much more than his father, Henry was the king who really hammered out the terms of the Magna Carta with the barons. John Paul Davis brings all his forensic skills and insights to the grand story of the Gothic King in this, the only biography in print of a most remarkable monarch.

Author : John Paul Davis
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720614694
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pity for The Guy written by John Paul Davis and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fully-rounded portrait of the man behind the Gunpowder Plot For hundreds of years Guy Fawkes has been portrayed as perhaps too extreme a figure—a rabid, bloodthirsty Catholic who not only tried to bomb British Parliament but threatened the English way of life. This biography reveals that he was much more than an evil, shadowy conspirator with an axe to grind. John Paul Davis delves into the evidence and makes a convincing case for new thinking on one of English history's greatest enigmas. Not only is the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 thrillingly reteold, but Guy Fawkes can now be seen as a multi-faceted figure—husband, soldier, lover, adveturer, spy, and possibly the most misunderstood of English villains.

Author : William Heaton (writer on Robin Hood.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The story of Robin Hood written by William Heaton (writer on Robin Hood.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: