Book: The Corner That Held Them In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ambitions, squabbles, jealousies, and pleasures of less spiritual environments. An outbreak of the Black Death, the collapse of the convent spire, the Bishop's visitation, and a nun's disappearance are interwoven with the everyday life of the nuns, novices, and prioresses in this marvelous imagined history of a 14th-century nunnery.
Details of Book: The Corner That Held Them Book: The Corner That Held Them
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman
ISBN: 086068878X
ISBN-13: 9780860688785
, 978-0860688785
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 07101993
Publisher: Virago Press (uk)
Number of Pages: 310
Language: English