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Loading... Abelard & Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings (edition 2007)by Peter Abelard, Heloise, William Levitan (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book contains the actual letters written by a master teacher in the 1100s. This teacher begins by complaining of what tragedies occurred in his life and how horrible everything was. It is an autobiography and one of the best resources for looking at the middle ages. Students can see how people write an autobiography and learn about what life was like in the middle ages. What information is left out and how did people live in that time? no reviews | add a review
The most comprehensive compilation of the works of Abelard and Heloise ever presented in a single volume in English, The Letters and Other Writings features an accurate and stylistically faithful new translation of both The Calamities of Peter Abelard and the remarkable letters it sparked between the ill-fated twelfth-century philosopher and his brilliant former student and lover-an exchange whose intellectual passion, formal virtuosity, and psychological drama distinguish it as one of the most extraordinary correspondences in European history. Thanks to this edition, Latin-less readers will be better placed than ever to see why this undisputed milestone in the intellectual life of medieval France is also a masterpiece of Western literature. In addition to the The Calamities and the letters--the first complete English translation of all seven in more than eighty years--this volume includes an Introduction, a map, and a chronology, Abelard's Confession of Faith , letters between Heloise and Peter the Venerable, the Introduction to The Questions of Heloise , and selected songs and poems by Abelard, among them a previously untranslated shaped poem, Open Wide Your Eyes. Extracts of lost letters sometimes ascribed to Abelard and Heloise are given in appendixes. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)189.4Philosophy and Psychology Ancient, medieval and eastern philosophy Early Christian and Medieval Scholastic: Scotus, Aquinas, Anselm, AbelardLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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