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English
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"The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for...
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Publisher:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date:
[2005]
Language:
English
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date:
1988
Language:
English
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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4 stars
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"An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Finding an apparently perfect world at Akenside Priory, in Northumberland, Catherine trusts herself to a group of twenty...
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Publisher:
The Conrad Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Love in the Cloisters' takes you, the reader, on a breathtaking journey into this epic love story that will make you laugh, cry and ask yourself what would you do if you were in Georgia's five-inch shoes? Why is it that Georgia, who is married for only a short time to Ross, a wonderful, loving man, allows herself to fall madly and passionately in love at first sight, with Cameron, a man of God, a man from the cloisters, a man of wondrous charisma?...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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Christopher I. Beckwith is professor of Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. His books include Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present and The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great Power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages (both Princeton). How science in medieval Europe originated in Buddhist Asia Warriors of...
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Pub. Date:
1976
Language:
English
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Publisher:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date:
[1979]
Language:
English
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For more than 10 years, thoroughly Protestant Kathleen Norris had been an oblate at a Benedictine monastery. In The Cloister Life, the celebrated author turns to the priory as her spiritual landscape, as she takes us through a liturgical year, inspiring us to evaluate our own lives and values. Norris provides tremendous insight into the languages, customs, ceremonies, and sexuality of the men and women who have chosen the cloistered life. With insight...
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A priest and a Holocaust survivor find their perspectives and senses of identity reshaped by their shared investigation into the classic romance between discredited religious scholar Peter Abelard and his intellectual paramour, Héloïse. After Father Michael Kavanagh sees a friend from his seminary days at the altar of his humble Inwood community parish, he wanders into the medieval haven of The Cloisters. In conversation with museum guide Rachel...
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Publisher:
Hesperus Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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A 1638 work of erotic fiction features nun-to-nun dialogues in the sexual arts "Is it right that a girl so accomplished be secluded as you are? No, no, my child, I want to share with you my most secret habits, and to give you a true notion of the deeds of a wise nun." This landmark erotic novel salaciously presents the education, one might say indoctrination, of green Catholic nun Sister Agnes at the hands of her more experienced cohort Sister Angelique....
Book cover for "Death in the Cloisters: A Tuscan Cosy Mystery Full of Small-Town Charm".
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Publisher:
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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When it comes to solving crimes, Sister Isabella is second to 'nun'. In the picturesque village of Santa Caterina, nestled in the rolling Tuscan hills, convent life is turned upside down when one of its own is found dead under suspicious circumstances. As whispers echo through the cloistered halls, Sister Isabella joins forces with Carabiniere Matteo once again to uncover the truth behind the tragedy. Just as the investigation begins to unfold, a...
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The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade. A small portion of this tale appeared in Once a Week, July-September, 1859, under the title of "A Good Fight".) The Cloister and the Hearth is a historical novel by the English author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the story revolving about the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries.
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With humor and opinions aplenty, a woman embarks on an unconventional quest to see if she is meant to be a nun. Just as Jane Christmas decides to enter a convent in mid-life to find out whether she is "nun material," her long-term partner Colin, suddenly springs a marriage proposal on her. Determined not to let her monastic dreams be sidelined, Christmas puts her engagement on hold and embarks on an extraordinary year-long adventure to four convents-one...
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Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Christine de Pizan is in danger when she is sent to the Priory of Poissy to catch the killer of a young nun in this vividly imagined historical mystery set in fourteenth-century France. Paris, 1399. Scribe Christine de Pizan is sent to the Priory of Poissy by the palace to copy a manuscript for the prioress. But the prioress already has many copyists, and Christine senses that something is amiss. Her suspicions are confirmed when the prioress reveals...
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Fiona Grace
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Lacey Doyle, 39 years old and freshly divorced, has made a drastic change: she has walked away from the fast life of New York City and settled down in the quaint English seaside town of Wilfordshire. December has arrived, bringing with it the first touch of Winter and the promise of Christmas. As Wilfordshire comes to life with holiday parties, Lacey is surprised when she receives an unexpected phone call-a mysterious object has been found hidden...
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Fiona Grace
Language:
Italian
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This book is an inspirational guide written to help you find out where Loneliness fits into your life. Why you do things in your life that just doesn't make sense or just doesn't add up. This book can inspire you to determine if you can make your life better than what it is or even find new directions whenever you feel lost, lonely and clueless. Loneliness can be derived from so many areas in our lives, when we give it some thought such and committing...
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On Elise Friedman's eighth birthday, she lost her mother and any connection to her mysterious past. Raised by her loving stepfather, Elise has spent years trying to learn the truth about her mother, Catrina, and her birth family in Germany, but still knows very little. Now a young woman in college, Elise is traveling to her homeland of Germany to uncover her family's past, but what she finds is much more harrowing than she ever suspected.
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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Stories of Cats with real character, living in some of the most interesting buildings and communities in the UK. A beautifully presented gift book and a great companion volume to Cathedral Cats. Cloister Cats explores a wide range of cats and their buildings that are now, or have historically, been home to ecclesiastical communities. From traditional monasteries in ancient settings to modern-day communities in suburban houses, and from followers of...