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If you love medieval courts, crusading adventure, troubadour songs and a love story told with fire and wit, this novel is for you.
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A tall count gallops through a smoldering night toward a single torch, while his father's army glows in the northern sky. Why does he go? Because the woman who holds the torch has asked him to come one last time.
That scene opens The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, Maurice Hewlett's 1901 novel about Richard the Lionheart. It follows a man of two natures, part cat and part dog, from Normandy to Acre, lebanon and a prison tower, framed by the chronicle of Abbot Milo. You get a great love story and a king who pays for every answer he gives.
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- 1Jehane sends the man she loves awayFree
- 2A strange princess and a gift to Gilles
- 3Bertran's song sends Richard into war
- 4A bride stolen and a tower burned
- 5The Rood bows and Richard takes the Cross
- 6Two queens, a son, and a plot among flies
- 7A wife for the Old Man and a hill unseen
- 8Yea and nay shape every choice
- 9Love gives itself away to be kept
- 10A leopard, a chronicler and a chorus of songs
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Jehane sends the man she loves away
The story opens on a smoldering night in Normandy. Richard, Count of Poitou, gallops toward a torch at the Dark Tower, while Abbot Milo struggles along behind him. The old King of England has camped at Louviers with an army to bring his rebellious son to heel.
The torch is held by Jehane Saint-Pol, a tall, pale, green-eyed girl who has been Richard's lover for two years. Richard wants to marry her and says a man should choose his own wife. Jehane answers gently that kings do not wed for love, and that he is promised to Alois, the sister of the King of France.
For two days and nights she pleads, and finally wins. Richard weeps with his face in her lap and agrees to go to his father. At dawn she kneels in the chapel while he takes communion in full mail. Milo tells her that Richard is already married, to the city of Jerusalem. Jehane shows her love by giving up what she wants most.
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What is The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay about?
It follows Richard the Lionheart from his youthful love for Jehane Saint-Pol through war with his father, the Third Crusade and his imprisonment. The book focuses on his divided nature and on the woman who sacrifices herself for him.
Why is Richard called Yea-and-Nay?
The troubadour Bertran de Born gave him the nickname because Richard so often says yes and then no. In the book it describes his two natures, the noble impulse and the proud second thought, which pull him in opposite directions.
Who is Jehane Saint-Pol?
Jehane of the Fair Girdle is a tall, green-eyed noblewoman who becomes Richard's lover and mother of his son Fulke. She sacrifices her honor and freedom several times to protect him, and she is the emotional center of the novel.
Is the novel a true story?
It is historical fiction, published in 1901. Many figures are real, including Richard, Philip of France and Saladin, but Hewlett invents Jehane, many scenes and the dialogue, and he writes as if Abbot Milo were keeping the chronicle.
What does the leopard mean in the book?
The abbot explains that a leopard has two souls, one of a cat and one of a dog. The image stands for Richard's two natures, and it recurs in the arms of Anjou, his movements, his rages and his loyalties.
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Hewlett, Maurice. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-life-and-death-of-richard-yea-and-nay.
Hewlett, M. (2026). The life and death of Richard Yea-and-Nay. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-life-and-death-of-richard-yea-and-nay (Original work published 1900)
Hewlett, Maurice. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-life-and-death-of-richard-yea-and-nay.
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