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The corner that held them /...
In memory of the wife who had once dishonoured and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded Oby - a twelfth-century convent in a hidden corner of Norfolk. Two centuries later the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such chequered motives, 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, successive Prioresses and the nun's priest, in this affectionate and ironic observation of the more wordly history of a religious order
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monografia Rebiun37948622 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun37948622 m o d cr ||||||||||| 870723s1968 enk o 000 0 eng d 0701113995 9780701113995 INARC eng INARC OCLCO OCLCL [Fic] The corner that held them by Sylvia Townsend Warner London Chatto & Windus 1968 London London Chatto & Windus 1 online resource (310 pages) 1 online resource (310 pages) Text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier In memory of the wife who had once dishonoured and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded Oby - a twelfth-century convent in a hidden corner of Norfolk. Two centuries later the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such chequered motives, 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, successive Prioresses and the nun's priest, in this affectionate and ironic observation of the more wordly history of a religious order Convents- England- Norfolk- Fiction Convents. Norfolk (England)- Fiction Great Britain- History- 14th century- Fiction Norfolk (Angleterre)- Romans, nouvelles, etc Grande-Bretagne- Histoire- 14e siècle- Romans, nouvelles, etc England- Norfolk. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRkkW4HPmVkDxBRrvm7B Great Britain. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP Fiction. Historical fiction. History. Historical fiction.