Was Robin Hood a baaaad boy?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’}The legendary figure has had many stories written and films made about him, all of them depicting him as a good man fighting evil authorities on behalf of a beleaguered populace. Now it seems that the view of Robin Hood as a good guy was not shared by everyone. Julian Luxford of St. Andrews University has discovered a Latin inscription in a manuscript dating to about 1460 that casts him in a negative light. “Around this time, according to popular opinion, a certain outlaw named Robin Hood, with his accomplices, infested Sherwood and other law-abiding areas of England with continuous robberies,” says the note, which Luxford found in the margins of a history book. Written by a monastic chronicler, it isn’t altogether surprising that the comment is so antipathetic, since the exploits of a heroic thief could have inspired resistance to authority, i
