Harline gives readers the whole of a hidden world--from all the routine aspects of life in a counter-Reformation convent ("like", he writes, "unpolished, more heated Flemish versions of Jane Austen") to the more exotic events that defined the life of poor Sister Margaret, who earned the other sisters' hostility by accusing a young chaplain of sexual harassment.
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Harline gives readers the whole of a hidden world--from all the routine aspects of life in a counter-Reformation convent ("like", he writes, "unpolished, more heated Flemish versions of Jane Austen") to the more exotic events that defined the life of poor Sister Margaret, who earned the other sisters' hostility by accusing a young chaplain of sexual harassment.
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Near Fine in a slightly wrinkled dust jacket. 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches. A noted historian recreates life in a seventeenth-century Belgian convent, based on recently discovered letters of the Franciscan Grey Sister of Leuven (Louvain); includes bibliographic notes and an index in 359 pages.
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As New in As New jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket AS NEW. Historian Craig Harline discovered in Belgian archives bundles of correspondence that Franciscan Grey Sisters of a convent in Louvain penned more than three centuries earlier-details, hopes, concerns of the nuns in the community. He has used this research to write this tale of life in the convent during the tumultuous times of the Reformation. Handsome binding of gray half cloth with sharp and bright gilt titles, green boards, spotless, soundly bound, square with sharp corners. Internals as new. Unclipped jacket with illustration by Marco Ventura. 359 pages including Bibliographical Notes and Index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Doubleday, New York, 1994.
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