The letters of Abelard and Heloise
By: translated [from the Latin] with an introduction by Betty Radice.
Contributors: Héloïse, 1101-1164.; Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142 -- Correspondence; Héloïse, 1101-1164 -- Correspondence; Abbesses, Christian -- France -- Correspondence; Theologians -- France -- Correspondence
Description: This translation includes Abelard's account of his misfortunes (Historica calamitatum); four of their personal letters; the 'letters of Direction', in which he advises her how to adapt for women the rule of Benedict; correspondence btween Heloise and peter the Venerable and two Abelard's hymns.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 296-297.
Includes Historia calamitatum; Abélard to a friend; the story of his misfortunes.
Includes index.