Social Bandits
Sponsoring Organization(s)
International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)
Organizer Name
Sherron Lux
Organizer Affiliation
San Jacinto College
Presider Name
Sherron Lux
Paper Title 1
The Benefits of Bandits: Securing Cultural Capital in the Early Medieval North Atlantic
Presenter 1 Name
Jeremy DeAngelo
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Paper Title 2
"Robin in to her churche ran": Sanctuary and the Good Outlaw in Medieval Outlaw Tales
Presenter 2 Name
Gayle Fallon
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Louisiana State Univ.
Paper Title 3
Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned: The Trial of The Plastic People and the Birth of Charter 77
Presenter 3 Name
Dean A. Hoffman
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Occidental Institute
Paper Title 4
An Alternate World "Chinese" Social Bandit: Ren Daiyan of Guy Gavriel Kay's River of Stars
Presenter 4 Name
Laura Blunk
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Cuyahoga Community College
Start Date
10-5-2019 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1245
Description
The idea of the social bandit, aka the good thief or the noble robber, reaches back millennia and is found around the globe. The social bandit, whether an individual or a group, historical or fictional, is seen by a segment of a society as protecting and assisting them. Even an historical social bandit may develop into myth or legend, and the legend lives and changes long after the originator is dead. The legend of a fictional social bandit likewise shifts over time; as Brian Alderson states that while many years ago he wrote that “’Every generation gets the Robin Hood that it deserves,’” he now believes that, “Every generation surely creates for itself the Robin Hood that it needs” (Forward to Kevin Carpenter’s 1995 Robin Hood: The Many Faces of that Celebrated English Outlaw, p. 9). This could be said not only of Robin Hood but of all fictional and even historical social bandits who are perceived as robbing the rich to help the poor in some way or other. Melissa Elmes
Social Bandits
Schneider 1245
The idea of the social bandit, aka the good thief or the noble robber, reaches back millennia and is found around the globe. The social bandit, whether an individual or a group, historical or fictional, is seen by a segment of a society as protecting and assisting them. Even an historical social bandit may develop into myth or legend, and the legend lives and changes long after the originator is dead. The legend of a fictional social bandit likewise shifts over time; as Brian Alderson states that while many years ago he wrote that “’Every generation gets the Robin Hood that it deserves,’” he now believes that, “Every generation surely creates for itself the Robin Hood that it needs” (Forward to Kevin Carpenter’s 1995 Robin Hood: The Many Faces of that Celebrated English Outlaw, p. 9). This could be said not only of Robin Hood but of all fictional and even historical social bandits who are perceived as robbing the rich to help the poor in some way or other. Melissa Elmes