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Heloise and Abelard: A Twelfth-Century Love Story
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HELOISE AND ABELARD: A TWELFTH-CENTURY LOVE STORY by James Burge Profile Books, L16.99, pp. 301, ISBN 1861974175
The grand passion of a philosopher
Abelard has been made to play many roles in French history. In 1796 Alexandre Lenoir created the first museum of French national monuments. The French Revolution had abolished the past, but they thought that the French people should know about it. So the tombs of the French kings illustrated the continuity of French history, and alon...
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Lovers in search of monastic bliss . . .
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Byline: FRANCES SPALDING HELOISE AND ABELARD: A TWELFTH CENTURY LOVE STORY by James Burge (Profile Books, [pounds sterling]16.99) THE story of Heloise and Abelard is 900 years old. Yet still today lovers throw flowers over the monument that marks their final resting place in the Pere Lachaise
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Arts Etc: Books - Deliver us from temptation Heloise and Abelard: a 12th-century love story By James Burge PROFILE pounds 16.99 pounds 14.99 (+ pounds 2.25 P&P PER ORDER) 0870 800 1122
The Independent on Sunday
; Heloise and Abelard were not given a Shakespeare to mythologise their passion; but even so, it is doubtful if their story would have eclipsed that of the doomed lovers of Verona: it is far more complex, deep and terrible. Nor, at first glance, does it seem to offer much hope for those who believe
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Cut off in their prime Jonathan Sumption on how a conceited philosopher and a 'not bad' looking bluestocking became legendary lovers
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Heloise and Abelard: A Twelfth-century Love Story by James Burge Profile, pounds 16.99, 301 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 PETER ABELARD , who died in 1142, was a freelance philosopher and teacher in an age when such people had roughly the same status as top opera singers or
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A 12th century love affair.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Carol Herman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES James Burge has written a thoughtful and affecting book describing the famously doomed 12th century lovers Heloise and Abelard. In the centuries since their courtship and the consequences that followed from it, the world has known them by eight
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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TWO LOVERS ALSO BROUGHT US REASON.(P-I Focus)(Column)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Now that the calendar has turned, I too begin to anticipate the more dramatic turning of the millennium. Over the next couple of years I will take as subjects figures who have put a special mark on the thousand-year epoch that draws to an end. Today, I invite you to cast your mind back nearly the
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