The lost love letters of Heloise and Abelard
perceptions of dialogue in twelfth-century France
by C. J. Mews
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"In this book, Constant Mews examines a collection of Latin love letters preserved in a fifteenth-century manuscript of Clairvaux, edited by Ewald Konsgen in 1974 under the title The Letters of Two Lovers. He argues that it records 113 love letters exchanged by Heloise and Abelard at the time of their love affair.
Mews provides an indepth analysis of the debate concerning the authenticity of the letters and looks at the way in which the relationship between Heloise and Abelard has been perceived over the centuries. He explores the political, literary, and religious contexts in which the two figures conducted their affair, and offers new insights into Heloise as an astonishingly gifted writer whose literary gifts were only revealed in the course of her relationship with her teacher. The complete Latin text of the love letters as edited by Konsgen is reproduced in the volume, along with an annotated translation by Neville Chiavaroli and Constant J.
Mews."--BOOK JACKET.
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Abbesses, Christian, Christian Abbesses, Correspondence, History, History and criticism, Latin Letter writing, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Letter writing, Letter writing, Latin, Love-letters, Medieval and modern Latin letters, Theologians, Translations into English, Abelard, peter, 1079-1142, Heloise, 1101-1164, Latin letters, Latin literature, medieval and modern, translations into english, Liefdesbrieven, Civilization, Epistolae duorum amantiumPlaces
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The lost love letters of Heloise and Abelard: perceptions of dialogue in twelfth-century France
2008, Palgrave Macmillan
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- 2nd ed.
0230608132 9780230608139
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La voix d'Heloise: un dialogue de deux amants
2005, Cerf, Academic press
in French
2204072184 9782204072182
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The Lost Love Letters Of Heloise And Abelard: Perceptions Of Dialogue In Twelfth-century France
1999, Macmillan
in English
0333754727 9780333754726
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The lost love letters of Heloise and Abelard: perceptions of dialogue in twelfth-century France
1999, St. Martin's Press
in English
- 1st ed.
0312216041 9780312216047
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Edition Notes
English commentaries and Latin texts with English translations.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-368) and index.
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