La materia hoodiana nel contesto plurilingue e multiculturale del medioevo europeo

This essay, focused on the Robin Hood’s matter in the multilingual and multicultural context of the European Middle Ages, aims to highlight how a comparative approach to style, structures and themes allows to overcome some stereotypic depictions of the literary genre of the early Robin Hood texts, and to better unveil their hybrid nature. Due to its brevity, the essay does not include a detailed description of the specific realizations of the Robin Hood matter in local traditions, but rather tackles some crucial methodological aspects that would facilitate a reappraisal of the medieval literary canon from a comparative viewpoint.