The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
<DIV>Peter Abelard (1079–1142) was the greatest logician of the twelfth century. He taught in Paris, where Heloise (1101–1164) was his pupil when they met.For generations,Heloisehas been the name in household advice. Continuing in the tradition of her mother, the original Heloise, today's Heloise has become a media phenomenon. Along with her numerous television appearances and worldwide syndicated newspaper column, she has a monthly feature inGood Housekeeping, and her own website. Heloise is the author of several bestselling books.M. T. Clanchy researches at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London.M. T. Clanchy researches at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London.Betty Radiceread classics at Oxford, then married and, in the intervals of bringing up a family, tutored in classics, philosophy and English. She became joint editor of the Penguin Classics in 1964. As well as editing the translation of Livy’sThe War with Hannibalshe translated Livy’sRome and Italy, Pliny’s Letters,The Letters of Abelard and Heloiseand Erasmus’sPraise of Folly, and also wrote the introduction to Horace’sComplete Odes and Epodes, all for the Penguin Classics. She also edited Edward Gibbon’sMemoirs of My Lifefor the Penguin English Library, and edited and annotated her translation of the younger Pliny’s works for the Loeb Library of Classics and translated from Renaissance Latin, Greek and Italian for the Officina Bodoni of Verona. She collaborated as a translator in the Collected Works of Erasmus, and was the author of the Penguin Reference BookWho’s Who in the Ancient World. Betty Radice was an honorary fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and a vice-president of the Classical Association. Betty Radice died in 1985.</DIV>