From the same medieval collection that preserves Aucassin and Nicolete, William Morris translates four thirteenth-century French prose tales: the emperor Coustans and a prophecy he cannot escape, the devoted friendship of Amis and Amile, the faithful Jehane who disguises herself as a squire, and a story of crusade and captivity overseas. Joseph Jacobs supplies an introduction on their sources.
Medieval romance in Morris’s deliberately archaic English, a pleasure for lovers of the Middle Ages. Download the free EPUB.