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.
Table of Content
The Discovery of a Manuscript Memories of an Affair Paris, the Schools and the Politics of Sex Traditions of Dialogue The Language of the Love Letters The Voice of Heloise From the Letters of Two Lovers (text and translation)
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
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