Why Everything You Know about Robin Hood Is Wrong: Featuring a pirate monk a French maid and a surprising number of morris dancers: 1 (Why Everything You Know...Is Wrong)

What if everything you ever knew about Robin Hood was wrong? He wasnt a nobleman. He never met Maid Marian. He didnt go on Crusade. And he absolutely did not rob from the rich to give to the poor.For the first time the information that medieval historians have about Robin Hood is made available to a popular audience. Why Everything You Know about Robin Hood Is Wrong is an illuminating entertaining and really quite sarcastic trip through what we actually do know about one of Englands most famous heroes.Meet the many candidates to be the real Robin Hood Eustace monk-turned-pirate Hereward landowner-turned-bandit Fulk noble-turned-outlaw and discover why none of them actually was. Find out how Maid Marian came over from France and how she was ahem intimately connected with Friar Tuck. And learn out more than you ever wanted to know about medieval hoods.