Sign-In
Cart
The Devil in a Nunnery, and Other Mediaeval Tales
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781667667263
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Apr 29 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ten tales of mediaeval England, conjuring an age when devils walked among the faithful, saints worked miracles in the green shires, and knights rode out for the Holy Land. A wandering pilgrim charms a nunnery with his cithern - until the bells reveal his fiery nature. A leper woman's love survives a crusade. Witches gather at lonely crossroads. A mason takes terrible vengeance for his daughter's ruin. A castle falls amid prophecy and treachery. Saints die in the odor of sanctity, and the Evil One steals the Pyx from the very altar.
Written in a rich, pseudo-archaic English that recalls Chaucer and the Gesta Romanorum, these tales of sin, miracle, and the supernatural evoke a vivid world where the line between faith and damnation is forever blurred, and where the road home is never quite the road one set out upon.
1 different editions
Also available
Also from
Mann, Francis Oscar
Works. Edited From the Earliest Extant Editions and Broadsides, With an Introd. and Notes by Francis Oscar Mann
Deloney, Thomas
Mann, Francis Oscar
Paperback
Works. Edited From the Earliest Extant Editions and Broadsides, With an Introd. and Notes by Francis Oscar Mann
Mann, Francis Oscar
Deloney, Thomas
Hardcover
Also in
Westerns
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901: Arizona Territories
Turner, Nancy
Paperback
The Last Ride of the Dirty Creek Gang (Large Print Edition)
Johnstone, William W.
Johnstone, J. A.
Hardcover
The Best of Enemies: A Trace and Chaw Western (Large Print Edition)
Johnstone, J. A.
Johnstone, William W.
Hardcover
Bullets, Biscuits, and Bloodshed (Large Print Edition)
Johnstone, J. A.
Johnstone, William W.
Hardcover
The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 4, Part 1: Adventure Stories
L'Amour, Louis
Paperback
Fool's Gold: A Novel of the Gold Rush (Large Print Edition)
Johnstone, J. A.
Johnstone, William W.
Paperback
John Williams: Collected Novels (Loa #349): Butcher's Crossing / Stoner / Augustus
Williams, John
Hardcover