Robin Hood and the Disinherited The story of Robin Hood as we know it today is usually set in the reigns of Richard the Lionheart (1189-1199) and King John (1199-1216). This tradition goes back no further than 1521 and the work of John Major, a Scottish theologian, who in that year, published the Historia Majoris … Continue reading Origins of a Legend: Robin Hood and the Disinherited