outlaws introduction

Question 1

what do outlaws historically refer to?

Answer 1

those declared outside of the protection of the law, making them vulnerable to punishment, loss of rights, or even death withou repercussions to those who acted against them.

Question 2

maurice keen

Answer 2

an outlaw was “a person placed beyond the bounds of the community, stripped of legal protections, and often regarded as a social pariah”, rendering them “civilly dead”.

Question 3

Eric Hobsbawm

Answer 3

expanded the concept of outlaws – “social bandits” – he notes “they are peasant outlaws whom the lord and state regard as criminals, but who remain within peasant society and are considered by their people as champions, avengers, fighters for justice, perhaps even leaders of liberation”.

Question 4

Marcus Rediker

Answer 4

argued that outlaw figures such as pirates represented “transgressive resistance to capitalist expansion”, rejecting the structured of authority that sought to control their lives.

Question 5

Timothy R. Pauketat

Answer 5

“the outlaw embodies a cultural critique of law itself, questioning the justice or morality of the rules they are said to break”.

Question 6

James c Appleby

Answer 6

his study allowed him to draw deep continuities to emerge, outlaw traditions, struggles of local government, petty & serious local disorder. Finding outlaws had a profound influence on the English constitution and state.

Question 7

E.P. Thompson

Answer 7

views outlaws as societal actors not inherently criminal, active agents, sharing deeper principles of justice rooted in cultural or moral economies.

Question 8

problem with outlaw sources

Answer 8

they rarely recorded their activities, sources were provided by officials and popular press and writers of the time, no interest in getting the subjects way of events.