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This new edition offers fascinating insights into one of the most celebrated love affairs of the Middle Ages. A new chapter charts the debate about the letters and offers fresh evidence to attribute them to Abelard and Heloise. The complete Latin text is reproduced with an annotated translation by Chiavaroli and Mews.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From the Letters of Two Lovers
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
Reviews of the first edition:
'This book stands as a treasure trove of new information about Heloise, and Abelard too. . . This excellent edition allows us modern readers to interpret these medieval Latin letters for ourselves, and even to reconstruct the correspondence of Abelard and Heloise.' - Michael Clanchy in The Times Literary Supplement
'A thorough, sympathetic appraisal of the [letters] . . . By restoring this magnificent literary dialogue to its rightful place in Latin letters, Mews has performed a signal service not only for scholars of Abelard and Heloise, but for all who love literature.' -The Medieval Review
'Important for Medievalists, feminists, and those captivated by the Heloise and Abelard myth; highly recommended.' - Library Journal
About the author
CONSTANT MEWS is Professor, School of Historical Studies and Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Monash University, Australia.
NEVILLE CHIAVAROLI is a latinist and professional translator, University of Melbourne, Australia
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard
Book Subtitle: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France
Authors: Constant J. Mews
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05921-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60813-9Published: 17 November 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-05921-5Published: 23 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 421
Topics: European History, History of Medieval Europe, Literature, general, Social History, Cultural History, Modern History