The Devil in a Nunnery, and Other Mediaeval Tales - Francis Oscar Mann

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.