Listening To Heloise
Subtitle: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman (The New Middle Ages)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780312213541
Subjects: Specific Members Of Religious Congregations And Orders; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; Historical - General; Religious; History / Medieval; Medieval; Western Europe - General; 1101-1164; Heloise,; Hâeloèise,
First sentence: 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.