Book description
An immersive, sultry, heart-pounding historical reimagining of the Robin Hood ballads, told through the piercing eyes of one of his spies.
Jane Crowe is an ordinary peasant girl who never dreamed she would work for the infamous Lord of the Greenwood. But when she’s forced out of her home, she…
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1 author picked The Traitor of Sherwood Forest as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I have published several articles on medievalism (the use of the Middle Ages in popular culture) and have taught Robin Hood texts for years, so I grabbed this as soon as it became available.
I was enthralled by the character of Jane Crowe, a quiet peasant girl who becomes a spy for Robin Hood. I also appreciated the way that this Robin Hood harks back to the more brutal figure found in early Robin Hood texts from the Middle Ages; this is not the altruistic Robin Hood of later medievalist texts, and the novel is the better for it.
I…
From Lauryn's list on novels set in the Middle Ages (by a medievalist).
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