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Listening To Heloise

The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman

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  • © 2000

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  1. Bonnie Wheeler
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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Heloise the Abbess: The Expansion of the Paraclete

    • Mary Martin McLaughlin
    Pages 1-17

  3. Authenticity Revisited

    • John Marenbon
    Pages 19-33

  4. Philosophical Themes in the Epistolae Duorum Amantium: The First Letters of Heloise and Abelard

    • Constant J. Mews
    Pages 35-52

  5. The Young Heloise and Latin Rhetoric: Some Preliminary Comments on the “Lost” Love Letters and Their Significance

    • John O. Ward, Neville Chiavaroli
    Pages 53-119

  6. Textual Strategies in the Abelard/Heloise Correspondence

    • Katharina Wilson, Glenda McLeod
    Pages 121-142

  7. Heloise, Dialectic, and the Heroides

    • Phyllis R. Brown, John C. Peiffer II
    Pages 143-160

  8. Classical Myth and Gender in the Letters of “Abelard” and “Heloise”: Gloss, Glossed, Glossator

    • Jane Chance
    Pages 161-185

  9. “In Any Corner of Heaven”: Heloise’s Critique of Monastic Life

    • Linda Georgianna
    Pages 187-216

  10. The Curse of Eve: Female Bodies and Christian Bodies in Heloise’s Third Letter

    • Peggy McCracken
    Pages 217-231

  11. Heloise Redressed: Rhetorical Engagement and the Benedictine Rite of Initiation in Heloise’s Third Letter

    • Donna Alfano Bussell
    Pages 233-254

  12. Listening to Heloise at the Paraclete: Of Scholarly Diversion and a Woman’s “Conversion”

    • Morgan Powell
    Pages 255-286

  13. No Outlet for Incontinence: Heloise and the Question of Consolation

    • Alcuin Blamires
    Pages 287-301

  14. Heloise and the Consolation of Friendship

    • Brian Patrick McGuire
    Pages 303-321

  15. Quae Maternae Immemor Naturae: The Rhetorical Struggle Over the Meaning of Motherhood in the Writings of Heloise and Abelard

    • Juanita Feros Ruys
    Pages 323-339

  16. Pierre Bayle’s Reflections on a Much Discussed Woman: The Heloise Article in the Dictionnaire Historique Et Critique

    • Deborah Fraioli
    Pages 341-360

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 361-394
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Heloise, the twelfth-century French abbess and reformer, emerges from this book as one of history's most extraordinary women, a thinker-writer of profound insight and skill. Her supple and learned mind attracted the most radical philosopher of her time, Peter Abelard. He became her teacher, lover, husband, and finally monastic ally. That relationship has made her fame until now. But Heloise is far more important in her own right. Seventeen experts of international standing collaborate here to reveal and analyze how Heloise's daring achievements shaped normative issues of theology, rhetoric, rational argument, gender, and emotional authenticity. At last we are able to see her for herself, in her moment of history and human awareness.

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