MATRIX SIZE:Standard The power of knowledge should

The power of knowledge should not break the bank

social protest

With prose by turns scathing and heart-wrenching

media and Democrats

she found community and a path to the life she'd long wanted

MATRIX SIZE:Standard The power of knowledge shouldCast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen year old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily