The corner that held them
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Bok · Engelsk · 2020 · Fiction.
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| Omfang | 343 sider
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| Opplysninger | Første gang utgitt : London : Chatto & Windus, 1948. - "To become a nun in the fourteenth century was often a business transaction rather than a spiritual calling; it is small wonder, then, that the inhabitants of the Benedictine convent of Oby are prey to worldly ambitions, frustrations, pleasures and jealousies. An outbreak of the Black Death the collapse of the convent spire and a disappearance are the dramas that strike this cloistered community, which is brought vividly to life in Sylvia Townsend Warner's masterpiece"--. - 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.
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| Emner | Benedictine nuns
Convents - England - Norfolk Monasticism and religious orders for women engelsk litteratur historisk roman fiksjon |
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| ISBN | 0241454816. - 9780241454817
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