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

Abelard, Peter, Heloise, Lombardo, Stanley

ISBN 10: 0872208753 / ISBN 13: 9780872208759

Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2007

Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Seller Inventory # T10A-08116

Synopsis:

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 readers will be better placed than ever to see why this undisputed milestone in the intellectual life of medieval France is also 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 previously untranslated shaped poem, Open Wide Your Eyes. Extracts of lost letters sometimes ascribed to Abelard and Heloise are given in appendixes.

About the Author:

William Levitan is Associate Professor of Classics, Grand Valley State University and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Abelard and Heloise: The Letters and Other ...
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good