The letters of Abelard and Heloise / translated with an introduction by Betty Radice.

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublication details: Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1974.Description: 309 p. : maps. ; 18 cmContent type:

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ISBN:

0140442979

Contained works:

Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. Works Selections English
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. Correspondence Selections English
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 Correspondence Selections English
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142 Historia calamitatum English

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DDC classification:

189.4

Summary: "The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Despite their misfortunes, these staunch Christians, as their letters reveal, found a path through self-pity into acceptance of a changed but lasting relationship. Whilst Heloise attained fame for her learning and administrative genius as an abbess, Abelard became an inspired teacher in Paris and the foremost logician of his day. This translation includes Abelard's account of his misfortunes (Historica calamitatum); four of their personal letters; the 'letters of Direction', in which he advises her how to adapt for women the rule of Benedict; correspondence between Heloise and Peter the Venerable; and two fo Abelard's hymns."-- Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	189.4 LET (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000010426

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Includes Historia calamitatum; Abélard to a friend; the story of his misfortunes.

Bibliography: p. 296-297.

Includes index.

"The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs.
Despite their misfortunes, these staunch Christians, as their letters reveal, found a path through self-pity into acceptance of a changed but lasting relationship. Whilst Heloise attained fame for her learning and administrative genius as an abbess, Abelard became an inspired teacher in Paris and the foremost logician of his day.
This translation includes Abelard's account of his misfortunes (Historica calamitatum); four of their personal letters; the 'letters of Direction', in which he advises her how to adapt for women the rule of Benedict; correspondence between Heloise and Peter the Venerable; and two fo Abelard's hymns."-- Publisher's description.