The cloister

By James Carroll

Subjects: Cloisters (Museum), Romance, Holocaust survivors, FICTION, Literary, Fiction, Clergy, Historical, Man-woman relationships, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 20th Century, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, Priests, Catholic Church

Description: 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.