‘The Original Hoods’: Late Medieval English Crime Fiction
Early crime fiction is usually linked to the true crime stories that developed into The Newgate Calendar by the mid-eighteenth century, but there were late medieval and early modern narratives in popular poetry that described and even celebrated actions by free peasants against the authorities of th...
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Firenze University Press
2021-03-01
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Series: | Journal of Early Modern Studies |
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Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/12546 |