Two Medieval Outlaws, Eustace the Monk and Fouke FitzWaryn.(Review)

Since the appearance of Maurice Keen's Outlaws of Medieval Legend the important contribution of the thirteenth-century romances, Romans de Witasse le Moine and Fouke le FitzWaryn, to the mythology surrounding heroic outlaws has been recognized. Glyn Burgess has produced two readable English prose translations of these works from medieval French in a single volume: Two Medieval Outlaws, Eustace the Monk and Fouke FitzWaryn (Cambridge: Brewer, 1997; pp. x+210. 35 [pounds sterling]) and provided scholarly introductions on the relationship between the heroes of these romances and their historical counterparts. There are striking similarities between these men. They became outlaws …