A Monk of Fife

Andrew Lang

• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783735792891
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Historical Fiction
• Index: Literature

The ways were rude and long from Bordeaux town to Orleans, whither I had set my face, not knowing, when I left my own country, that the city was beleaguered by the English. For who could guess that lords and knights of the Christian faith, holding captive the gentle Duke of Orleans, would besiege his own city?-a thing unheard of among the very Saracens, and a deed that God punished. Yet the news of this great villainy, namely, the leaguer of Orleans, then newly begun, reached my ears on my landing at Bordeaux, and made me greatly fear that I might never meet my brother Robin alive. And this my doubt proved but too true, for he soon after this time fell, with many other Scottish gentlemen and archers, deserted shamefully by the French and by Charles de Bourbon, Comte de Clermont, at the Battle of the Herrings.

Table of contents

• A Monk of Fife
• PREFACE
• CHAPTER I—HOW THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN, AND HOW NORMAN LESLIE FLED OUT OF FIFE
• CHAPTER II—HOW NORMAN LESLIE MET NOIROUFLE THE CORDELIER, CALLED BROTHER THOMAS IN RELIGION: AND OF MIRACLES WROUGHT BY BROTHER THOMAS
• CHAPTER III—WHAT BEFELL OUTSIDE OF CHINON TOWN
• CHAPTER IV—IN WHAT COMPANY NORMAN LESLIE ENTERED CHINON; AND HOW HE DEMEANED HIMSELF TO TAKE SERVICE
• CHAPTER V—OF THE FRAY ON THE DRAWBRIDGE AT CHINON CASTLE
• CHAPTER VI—HOW NORMAN LESLIE ESCAPED OUT OF CHINON CASTLE
• CHAPTER VII—CONCERNING THE WRATH OF ELLIOT, AND THE JEOPARDY OF NORMAN LESLIE
• CHAPTER VIII—OF CERTAIN QUARRELS THAT CAME ON THE HANDS OF NORMAN LESLIE
• CHAPTER IX—OF THE WINNING OF ELLIOT
• CHAPTER X—HOW NORMAN LESLIE WAS OUT OF ALL COMFORT
• CHAPTER XI—HOW MADAME CATHERINE OF FIERBOIS WROUGHT A MIRACLE FOR A SCOT, AND HOW NORMAN RODE TO THE WARS
• CHAPTER XII—HOW THE MAID CAME TO ORLEANS, AND OF THE DOLOROUS STROKE THAT FIRST SHE STRUCK IN WAR
• CHAPTER XIII—OF THE FIGHTING AT LES AUGUSTINS AND THE PROPHECY OF THE MAID
• CHAPTER XIV—OF THE FIGHTING AT THE BRIDGE, AND OF THE PRIZE WON BY NORMAN LESLIE FROM THE RIVER
• CHAPTER XV—HOW NORMAN LESLIE WAS ABSOLVED BY BROTHER THOMAS
• CHAPTER XVI—HOW SORROW CAME ON NORMAN LESLIE, AND JOY THEREAFTER
• CHAPTER XVII—HOW ELLIOT LOST HER JACKANAPES
• CHAPTER XVIII—HOW ELLIOT’S JACKANAPES WAS SEEN AT THE KING’S CROWNING
• CHAPTER XIX—HOW NORMAN LESLIE RODE AGAIN TO THE WARS
• CHAPTER XX—CONCERNING THE MAID AND THE BIRDS
• CHAPTER XXI—HOW A HUNDRED SCOTS SET FORTH TO TAKE PARIS TOWN
• CHAPTER XXII—HOW NORMAN LESLIE FARED IN PARIS TOWN
• CHAPTER XXIII—HOW ELLIOT’S JACKANAPES CAME HOME
• CHAPTER XXIV—HOW THE MAID HEARD ILL TIDINGS FROM HER VOICES, AND OF THE SILENCE OF THE BIRDS
• CHAPTER XXV—OF THE ONFALL AT PONT L’ÉVÊQUE, AND HOW NORMAN LESLIE WAS HURT
• CHAPTER XXVI—HOW, AND BY WHOSE DEVICE, THE MAID WAS TAKEN AT COMPIÈGNE
• CHAPTER XXVII—HOW NORMAN LESLIE FARED IN COMPIÈGNE, WITH THE END OFTHAT LEAGUER
• CHAPTER XXVIII—HOW THE BURGUNDIANS HUNTED HARES, WITH THE END OF THAT HUNTING
• CHAPTER XXIX—SHOWETH HOW VERY NOBLE WAS THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
• CHAPTER XXX—HOW NORMAN LESLIE TOOK SERVICE WITH THE ENGLISH
• CHAPTER XXXI—HOW NORMAN LESLIE SAW THE MAID IN HER PRISON
• CHAPTER XXXII—THE END OF THIS CHRONICLE
• APPENDIX A—NORMAN’S MIRACLE
• APPENDIX B—ELLIOT’S RING
• FOOTNOTES
• Copyright