num_pages: 310
description: An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found hereIn memory of the wife who had once dishonoured 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 imagined history of a 14th-century nunnery.
language: English
title: The Corner That Held Them
titlecomplete: The Corner That Held Them
genres: Fiction, Historical, Religion, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Medieval, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 1153
places: England, Norfolk, England
publisher: Virago