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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Correspondence of Heloise and Abelard
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Front Matter
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Heloise’s Questions [Problemata Heloissae]: Forty-Two Questions Posed by Heloise and Answered by Abelard, with an Introductory Letter by Heloise
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Front Matter
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Related Letters and Other Writings
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Keywords
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"Heloise and Abelard have been extraordinarily well served by this latest translation of their celebrated correspondence. Every aspect of the book is exemplary, from its comprehensive and unobtrusive annotations, to its enthralling introduction. But the greatest strength of the book is perhaps to undo a lot of the posthumous myth-making surrounding the couple, as its brisk and supple translation allows them to speak openly in their own terms. Thus Heloise clearly emerges with all her fierce passion and fiercer intelligence, while Abelard presents a personality as contradictory as his philosophy, being by turns nostalgic and repentant, combative and humble, caustic and self-pitying. Nonetheless the edition does not restrict itself to these voices alone, but expands their dialogue into a full-blown symposium, including a generous selection of related letters by both hostile and sympathetic parties, such as Peter the Venerable and Bernard of Clairvaux. In sum, this edition is an astonishing scholarly achievement, and will no doubt stand as the authoritative edition for some decades to come." - Ben Parsons, Teaching Fellow in English, University of Leicester, UK
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Letters of Heloise and Abelard
Book Subtitle: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings
Editors: Mary Martin McLaughlin, Bonnie Wheeler
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101876
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22935-1Published: 29 January 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-41364-2Published: 30 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10187-6Published: 21 December 2009
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 366
Topics: Medieval Literature, History of Medieval Europe, Classical and Antique Literature, Cultural Studies, European History