The philosophy of love: medieval pair traded endearments, ideas in their famous letters.(Book Review)

National Catholic Reporter | January 28, 2005| | Copyright

HELOISE & ABELARD: A NEW BIOGRAPHY By James Burge Harper San Francisco, 319 pages, $24.95

The 12th-century lovers Abelard and Heloise have been famous for 900 years. Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography quotes liberally from the eight elegant Latin letters between them that have been the main source of knowledge about the couple and their affair since the letters were discovered a century after their deaths. What makes Heloise & Abelard "new" is that it references 113 short letters that many now think were written back and forth between the couple during the course of ...

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