Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn

Fascinating insights into medieval life. THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn belong in the great tradition of medieval outlaws, and aspects of their lives, part-fact, part-fiction, find a reflection in the life of that most famous of all outlaws, Robin Hood. Glyn Burgess puts into modern English the two romances of the thirteenth century which relate their deeds, Li Romans de Witasse le Moine and Fouke le Fitz Waryn. He presents the historical reality of their...