Heloise, the twelfth-century French abbess and reformer, emerges from this book as one of history’s most extraordinary women, a thinker-writer of profound insight and skill. Her learned mind attracted the most radical philosopher of her time, Peter Abelard. He became her teacher, lover, husband, and finally monastic ally. That relationship has made her fame until now. But Heloise is far more important in her own right. Seventeen experts of international standing collaborate here to reveal and analyze how Heloise’s daring achievements shaped normative issues of theology, rhetoric, rational argument, gender, and emotional authenticity. At last we are able to see her for herself, in her moment of history and human awareness.
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Bonnie Wheeler is Director of the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University.
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Anyone who has ever read Abelard's Historia calamitatum and the Letters of Abelard and Heloise will be very interested in this collection of fifteen essays on Heloise (a.d. ?1101-1163/64?), Abbess of the Paraclete. My favorite is "Authenticity Revisited" by John Marenbon, which is a breath of fresh air in "one of the longest-running controversies in medieval scholarship". Marenbon and most - but not all - of the scholars who contributed to this book believe that Heloise did indeed write the famous letters which bear her name. Two essays, by Constant J. Mews and John O. Ward and Neville Chiavaroli, examine a newly re-evaluated series of letters which may well be love letters exchanged by Abelard and Heloise before their ill-fated marriage! Most of the other essays fall into the category of literary criticism, several from a feminist perspective, but the opening essay, by historian Mary Martin McLauglin, tells us more about "Heloise the Abbess: The Expansion of the Paraclete".
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If Heloise seems at last on the very verge of liberation from her long imprisonment in the "authenticity debate," in current scholarship the first abbess of the Paraclete has, it seems, not yet fully escaped the constraints of the correspondence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
suo specialiter, sua singulariter, old perpetual complaint, les idéologies modernes, suo immo fratri, suo immo patri, new religious rule, cursus patterns, epistolae duorum amantium, maternal martyr, salutatio formulas, menstruating body, authenticity controversy, female monastic life, lost love letters, black bride, paraenetic letter, les epistres, authenticity debate, colores rhetorici, epistolary dialogue, monastic audience, ars dictaminis, widowed bride, monastic profession Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peter Abelard, The Loving Subject, Peter Dronke, Song of Songs, Barbara Newman, Benedictine Rule, Ovid's Heroides, Peter the Venerable, Peter von Moos, Linda Georgianna, Catherine Brown, Gendering of the Literate Subject, John Marenbon, Johannes de Vepria, Mary Martin, Peggy Kamuf, Étienne Gilson, Bonnie Wheeler, Jean de Meun, Martin Irvine, Medieval Europe, The Lost Love Letters, Ward Ciceronian Rhetoric, Claire Nouvet, Constant Mews New!
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If Heloise seems at last on the very verge of liberation from her long imprisonment in the "authenticity debate," in current scholarship the first abbess of the Paraclete has, it seems, not yet fully escaped the constraints of the correspondence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
suo specialiter, sua singulariter, old perpetual complaint, les idéologies modernes, suo immo fratri, suo immo patri, new religious rule, cursus patterns, epistolae duorum amantium, maternal martyr, salutatio formulas, menstruating body, authenticity controversy, female monastic life, lost love letters, black bride, paraenetic letter, les epistres, authenticity debate, colores rhetorici, epistolary dialogue, monastic audience, ars dictaminis, widowed bride, monastic profession Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peter Abelard, The Loving Subject, Peter Dronke, Song of Songs, Barbara Newman, Benedictine Rule, Ovid's Heroides, Peter the Venerable, Peter von Moos, Linda Georgianna, Catherine Brown, Gendering of the Literate Subject, John Marenbon, Johannes de Vepria, Mary Martin, Peggy Kamuf, Étienne Gilson, Bonnie Wheeler, Jean de Meun, Martin Irvine, Medieval Europe, The Lost Love Letters, Ward Ciceronian Rhetoric, Claire Nouvet, Constant Mews New!
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- The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics) by Peter Abelard on 9 pages
- Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise by Peggy Kamuf on 8 pages
- Abelard and Heloise (Great Medieval Thinkers) by Constant J. Mews on 8 pages
- Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France (Women in Culture and Society) by Penelope D. Johnson on 5 pages
- Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions by Linda S. Kauffman on 4 pages
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- Joan of Arc and Spirituality (New Middle Ages) by Ann Astell in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters by Constance M. Furey in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Postcolonial Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages) by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in Front Matter
- The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature (The Middle Ages Series) by Peggy McCracken in Back Matter
- Women Writing Latin, Volume two: Medieval Modern Women Writing Latin by Laurie J. Churchill on page 196
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