A Monk of Fife

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Author

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

Title

A Monk of Fife Being the Chronicle Written by Norman Leslie of Pitcullo, Concerning Marvellous Deeds That Befell in the Realm of France, in the Years of Our Redemption, MCCCCXXIX-XXXI

Credits

Transcribed from the 1896 Longmans Green and Company edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Christian women saints -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

1631

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1631

Release Date

February 1, 1999

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A MONK OF FIFE Being the Chronicle written by Norman Leslie of Pitcullo, concerning marvellous deeds that befell in the realm of France, in the years of our redemption, MCCCCXXIX-XXXI. Now first done into English out of the French by Andrew Lang.
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CHAPTER I—HOW THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN, AND HOW NORMAN LESLIE FLED OUT OF FIFE
4. 4.CHAPTER II—HOW NORMAN LESLIE MET NOIROUFLE THE CORDELIER, CALLED BROTHER THOMAS IN RELIGION: AND OF MIRACLES WROUGHT BY BROTHER THOMAS
5. 5.CHAPTER III—WHAT BEFELL OUTSIDE OF CHINON TOWN
6. 6.CHAPTER IV—IN WHAT COMPANY NORMAN LESLIE ENTERED CHINON; AND HOW HE DEMEANED HIMSELF TO TAKE SERVICE
7. 7.CHAPTER V—OF THE FRAY ON THE DRAWBRIDGE AT CHINON CASTLE
8. 8.CHAPTER VI—HOW NORMAN LESLIE ESCAPED OUT OF CHINON CASTLE
9. 9.CHAPTER VII—CONCERNING THE WRATH OF ELLIOT, AND THE JEOPARDY OF NORMAN LESLIE
10. 10.CHAPTER VIII—OF CERTAIN QUARRELS THAT CAME ON THE HANDS OF NORMAN LESLIE
11. 11.CHAPTER IX—OF THE WINNING OF ELLIOT
12. 12.CHAPTER X—HOW NORMAN LESLIE WAS OUT OF ALL COMFORT
13. 13.CHAPTER XI—HOW MADAME CATHERINE OF FIERBOIS WROUGHT A MIRACLE FOR A SCOT, AND HOW NORMAN RODE TO THE WARS
14. 14.CHAPTER XII—HOW THE MAID CAME TO ORLEANS, AND OF THE DOLOROUS STROKE THAT FIRST SHE STRUCK IN WAR
15. 15.CHAPTER XIII—OF THE FIGHTING AT LES AUGUSTINS AND THE PROPHECY OF THE MAID
16. 16.CHAPTER XIV—OF THE FIGHTING AT THE BRIDGE, AND OF THE PRIZE WON BY NORMAN LESLIE FROM THE RIVER
17. 17.CHAPTER XV—HOW NORMAN LESLIE WAS ABSOLVED BY BROTHER THOMAS
18. 18.CHAPTER XVI—HOW SORROW CAME ON NORMAN LESLIE, AND JOY THEREAFTER
19. 19.CHAPTER XVII—HOW ELLIOT LOST HER JACKANAPES
20. 20.CHAPTER XVIII—HOW ELLIOT’S JACKANAPES WAS SEEN AT THE KING’S CROWNING
21. 21.CHAPTER XIX—HOW NORMAN LESLIE RODE AGAIN TO THE WARS
22. 22.CHAPTER XX—CONCERNING THE MAID AND THE BIRDS
23. 23.CHAPTER XXI—HOW A HUNDRED SCOTS SET FORTH TO TAKE PARIS TOWN
24. 24.CHAPTER XXII—HOW NORMAN LESLIE FARED IN PARIS TOWN
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIII—HOW ELLIOT’S JACKANAPES CAME HOME
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIV—HOW THE MAID HEARD ILL TIDINGS FROM HER VOICES, AND OF THE SILENCE OF THE BIRDS
27. 27.CHAPTER XXV—OF THE ONFALL AT PONT L’ÉVÊQUE, AND HOW NORMAN LESLIE WAS HURT
28. 28.CHAPTER XXVI—HOW, AND BY WHOSE DEVICE, THE MAID WAS TAKEN AT COMPIÈGNE
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVII—HOW NORMAN LESLIE FARED IN COMPIÈGNE, WITH THE END OFTHAT LEAGUER
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVIII—HOW THE BURGUNDIANS HUNTED HARES, WITH THE END OF THAT HUNTING
31. 31.CHAPTER XXIX—SHOWETH HOW VERY NOBLE WAS THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
32. 32.CHAPTER XXX—HOW NORMAN LESLIE TOOK SERVICE WITH THE ENGLISH
33. 33.CHAPTER XXXI—HOW NORMAN LESLIE SAW THE MAID IN HER PRISON
34. 34.CHAPTER XXXII—THE END OF THIS CHRONICLE
35. 35.APPENDIX A—NORMAN’S MIRACLE
36. 36.APPENDIX B—ELLIOT’S RING
37. 37.FOOTNOTES

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