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...