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...

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...

Peter Abelard's autobiography, the Historia calamitatum, is one of the best-known medieval texts, especially because of the story of his love for Heloise which it recounts. In recent decades, there was so much controversy about the authenticity of the documents concerning Abelard and Heloise that the critical interpretation of the texts was relegated to the sidelines. The present volume provides a way out of this impasse. In it, the famous text is subjected to a series of exemplary analyses from the perspectives of seven different 20th century literary theories (aesthetics of...