Jean de Meun's Translation of the Letters of Abelard and Heloise: NS36HB (Maem). This item is unavailable.
Language: French
Published by Medium Aevum Monographs / Ssmll, 2019
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Jean de Meun's Translation of the Letters of Abelard and Heloise: NS36HB (Maem)
- Author
- Jean De Meun, Leslie C Brook
- Publisher
- Medium Aevum Monographs / Ssmll
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- French
- ISBN 10
- 0907570623
- ISBN 13
- 9780907570622
- Item weight
- 540 grams
- Dimensions
- 14.81 x 2.06 x 21.01 cm
Héloïse's personal reply to Abelard's 'letter to a friend', the very public Historia calamitatum, began an exchange of epistles between the former lovers, by turns tender, practical and theological, and which only began to be circulated in the late thirteenth century, eventually attracting the attention of the accomplished translator and poet, Jean de Meun. Leslie Brook's edition of this French translation provides a reading text through a comparison with the Latin original and correction of obvious errors of the single manuscript witness.
Leslie Brook was formerly senior lecturer in French at the University of Birmingham.
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