Abelard and Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings (Hackett Classics)

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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 sick-fated twelfth-century philosopher and his brilliant former student and lover―an exchange whose intellectual passion, formal virtuosity, and psychological drama distinguish it as some of the odd correspondences in European history. Way to this edition, Latin-less readers will likely be better placed than ever to look why this undisputed milestone within the intellectual life of medieval France could also be 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 prior to now untranslated shaped poem, Open Wide Your Eyes. Extracts of lost letters every now and then ascribed to Abelard and Heloise are given in appendixes.


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