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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: The Repentant Abelard
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Carmen ad Astralabium
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Front Matter
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Planctus
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Front Matter
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Carmen ad Astralabium—Text
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Planctus—Text
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“Juanita Feros Ruys’s study is massively learned and erudite. Peter Abelard is reintroduced to medievalists as a figure beyond the heady days of his public life and Ruys sheds new and important light on other dimensions of this complex and fascinating personality. The text produced by Ruys is noteworthy and stands without antecedent or peer both for originality and interpretation. … The study is supplemented by an international, up-to-date bibliography.” (Thomas A. Fudge, Parergon, Vol. 32 (2), 2015)
“This important book shows how questioning the meaning of family might lead to a new understanding of human connections between men and women, brothers and sisters, or parents and children, about what bound them and how they dealt with loss, transforming grief into songs that reflected somehow the utterly ordinariness of being human.” (Babette Hellemans,Speculum, Vol. 94 (2), April, 2019)
"Juanita Feros Ruys introduces us to a more humane Abelard, as he evolved in the 1130s only after re-connecting with Heloise, the woman who had transformed his life two decades earlier. Through her edition, translation, and commentary of two, unjustly neglected poetic texts, his Carmen or Song for Astralabe and his Planctus or Laments, Ruys shows with elegance and finesse how Abelard could move beyond the moralism that characterises his earlier writing to Heloise to reflect on complex issues of family relationships, justice, and the human condition." - Constant J. Mews, Professor and Director, Centre for Religious Studies, Monash University, Australia
"This is one of the most original and important books to have been published about Abelard. Through impeccable scholarship, the fascinating but difficult poetry of his later years is made accessible to today's readers. The master of Latin rhetoric, who is revealed here, is as engaging as the more familiar figure of Abelard the philosopher and theologian. Here too is a fresh way of understanding the personal story of Abelard and Heloise." - M. T. Clanchy, University of London, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK
About the author
Juanita Feros Ruys is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Sydney Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her areas of expertise include the writings of Abelard and Heloise, medieval Latinate women's writings, medieval and early modern didactic literature, and high medieval demonology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Repentant Abelard
Book Subtitle: Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard’s Carmen ad Astralabium and Planctus
Authors: Juanita Feros Ruys
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137051875
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Juanita Feros Ruys 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-24002-8Published: 04 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38709-0Published: 04 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-05187-5Published: 03 December 2014
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 355
Topics: Historiography and Method, European History, History of Medieval Europe, Literary History