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The Lost Love Letters Of Heloise And Abelard » (REV)

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Authors: Constant J. Mews, Neville Chiavaroli (Translator), Constant Mew
ISBN-13: 9780312239411, ISBN-10: 0312239416
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: April 2001
Edition: REV

Author Biography: Constant J. Mews

Constant Mews teaches in the Department of History at Monash University in Australia, where he is also Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion.

Neville Chiavaroli, a classicist and Italian translator, is a doctoral student in the Department of History at Monash University.

Book Synopsis

The Lost Letters of Heloise and Abelard looks at the earlier correspondence between these two famous individuals, revealing the emotions and intimate exchanges that occurred between them.

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...a detailed and readable account...an asset to collections supporting studies of French literature and early French history and theology.

	Introduction
	Abbreviations
I	Perceptions of Dialogue
1	The Discovery of a Manuscript	3
2	Memories of an Affair	29
3	Paris, the Schools, and the Politics of Sex	57
4	Traditions of Dialogue	87
5	The Language of the Love Letters	115
6	The Voice of Heloise	145
II	From the Letters of Two Lovers
	The Edition	181
	Ex epistolis duorum amantium (From the Letters of Two Lovers)	190
	Notes	291
	Select Bibliography	363
	Index	369