On boundaries

It has been an interesting two weeks in terms of medieval stories in the media and how they have been reported. Magistra has posted on the Viking conference in Cambridge, but we have also seen an increase in Robin Hood’s appearances in the news, both with and without bad puns.

Dr Julian Luxford of St Andrews has just published a short piece in Journal of Medieval History on attitudes to Robin Hood in chronicles. St Andrews put out a press release and since then, the news item has gone somewhat viral and has been picked up all over the place by various news agencies and bloggers as indicated by the most basic of Google searches. My favourite is Another Bloody WordPress Blog with the post entitled ‘Dr Julian Luxford, whoever you are, you made my day!’ following a sudden increase in the blog’s readership. A similar thing happened to this blog when I posted about Chris Wickham, but on a much smaller scale obviously!