Question

The commended hero of the Robin Hood ballads who steals from the rich to give to the poor best reflects which characteristic of the medieval period

Answer 1

Many characteristics of the medieval period are associated with this subject of robin hood ballads. The most powerful i think is the desire for liberty amongst the poor a desire which was rooted in the oppressions of medieval life, and intensified by the social changes of the 16th and 17th century. Other characteristics are: the brutal enclosures of the land, civil war and encroachment of the market and the idea of the primative redistribution of wealth