ABSTRACT
Aelred of Rievaulx, an English Cistercian who served as Abbot of Rievaulx, tells this story of a nun in twelfth-century York, who has a sexual relationship with a monk, becomes pregnant, and is imprisoned and tortured by her fellow nuns. Gerald of Wales wrote two books about Ireland: the first, an account of the Anglo-Norman ‘invasion’ of 1169, in which his relatives the de Barrys played a prominent role; the second an historical and topographical account. The French poet, chronicler, and traveller Jean Froissart, whose Chronicles provide an extensive account of the history of western Europe in the fourteenth century, describes the execution of Sir Hugh Despenser, accused among other things of being King Edward II's lover.
