‘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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Main Author: Stephen Knight
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2021-03-01
Series:Journal of Early Modern Studies
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/12546