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

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