The Letters and Other WritingsHackett Pub., 2007 - 400 pages 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. |
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Abelard and Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings Peter Abelard,Heloise,Stanley Lombardo Limited preview - 2007 |