[Namron] OU Medieval Film and Lecture Series

[JOHN]

The final lecture of this year's series looks to be most interesting and
should be a great opening for Beltane Weekend:

 

Last lecture of the semester.  Thursday April 28, 7:00 p.m., OCCE Forum
building, 1704 Asp. Ave., Norman, OK

 

Not Dead Yet: Robin Hood and Late Medieval Chivalry presented by Kenneth
Hodges of OU Dept. of English

What happened to chivalry?  It was an evolving ideal, and toward the end of
the Middle Ages, certain non-knightly groups tried to find a place for
themselves in an elite military ethos.  The resulting struggles over what
made a man chivalric include debates over the value of archery in England,
and Robin Hood stories were adjusted to fit one view or another.  After a
brief introduction, I will focus on how archery interacted with ideas of
chivalry in the Robin Hood legend, scholarly defenses of archery, and a
London archery society that took the names of Arthurian knights.

 

 

Wolfgang

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