Listening to Heloise
Subtitle: the voice of a twelfth-century woman
By: edited by Bonnie Wheeler
Contributors: Wheeler, Bonnie, 1944-
Series: The new Middle Ages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Héloïse, -- 1101-1164
Description: "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 supple and 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-390) and index