by Conan Doyle · Cluster: Historical Novel · War and its Cost · Honour and Chivalry
Abstract
A prequel to The White Company, set at the start of the Hundred Years’ War. Young Squire Nigel Loring, of an impoverished but noble Surrey family feuding with Waverley Abbey, breaks a fierce warhorse, wins his knightly spurs, and sets out to seek chivalric adventure and honor in the service of King Edward III.
Capitoli / Chapters
- INTRODUCTION
- THE HOUSE OF LORING
- HOW THE DEVIL CAME TO WAVERLEY
- THE YELLOW HORSE OF CROOKSBURY
- HOW THE SUMMONER CAME TO THE MANOR HOUSE OF TILFORD
- HOW NIGEL WAS TRIED BY THE ABBOT OF WAVERLEY
- IN WHICH LADY ERMYNTRUDE OPENS THE IRON COFFER
- HOW NIGEL WENT MARKETING TO GUILDFORD
- HOW THE KING HAWKED ON CROOKSBURY HEATH
- HOW NIGEL HELD THE BRIDGE AT TILFORD
- HOW THE KING GREETED HIS SENESCHAL OF CALAIS
- IN THE HALL OF THE KNIGHT OF DUPLIN
- HOW NIGEL FOUGHT THE TWISTED MAN OF SHALFORD
- HOW THE COMRADES JOURNEYED DOWN THE OLD, OLD ROAD
- HOW NIGEL CHASED THE RED FERRET
- HOW THE RED FERRET CAME TO COSFORD
- HOW THE KING’S COURT FEASTED IN CALAIS CASTLE
- THE SPANIARDS ON THE SEA
- HOW BLACK SIMON CLAIMED FORFEIT FROM THE KING OF SARK
- HOW A SQUIRE OF ENGLAND MET A SQUIRE OF FRANCE
- HOW THE ENGLISH ATTEMPTED THE CASTLE OF LA BROHINIERE
- HOW THE SECOND MESSENGER WENT TO COSFORD
- HOW ROBERT OF BEAUMANOIR CAME TO PLOERMEL
- HOW THIRTY OF JOSSELIN ENCOUNTERED THIRTY OF PLOERMEL
- HOW NIGEL WAS CALLED TO HIS MASTER
- HOW THE KING OF FRANCE HELD COUNSEL AT MAUPERTUIS
- HOW NIGEL FOUND HIS THIRD DEED
- HOW THE THIRD MESSENGER CAME TO COSFORD
Connections
Forms & Genres: Historical Novel, Medieval Romance Themes & Concepts: Honour, Family and Lineage, Class Conflict, Fate and Free Will, Power and Corruption, Economics, History Motifs: Horse, Journey, Great House, Swords and Weapons Historical References: Medieval England, Hundred Years’ War, Catholic Church Settings: Rural England, Continental Europe (Brussels) Archetypes: Quest Hero, Hero, Mentor Topoi: Quest, Journey of Life