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The letters of Abelard and Heloise / translated with an introduction by Betty Radice.
Record no.:
1346
Author:
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142.;
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. Works. Selections. English.;
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. Correspondence. Selections. English.;
Heloise, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164. Correspondence. Selections. English.;
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. Historia calamitatum. English.;
Publisher:
Harmondsworth :: Penguin,
Year:
1974.
Series:
Penguin classics
Description:
309 pages : maps ; 18 cm.
Subject:
Heloise, 1101-1164 Correspondence.;
Heloise, 1101-1164.;
Abelard, Peter Correspondence.;
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142.;
Heloise Correspondence.;
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142 Correspondence.;
HAloAse, 1101-1164.;
Heloise, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 Correspondence.;
Abbesses, Christian - France Correspondence.;
Theologians - France Correspondence.;
France.;
Notes:
Includes Historia calamitatum; Abelard to a friend; the story of his misfortunes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-297) and index.
[Uniform title:Historia calamitatum. English.; 1974.]
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0140442979 9780140442977;
Abstract:
Historia calamitatum : Abelard to a friend : the story of his misfortunes -- The personal letters. Letter 1. Heloise to Abelard ; Letter 2. Abelard to Heloise ; Letter 3. Heloise to Abelard ; Letter 4. Abelard to Heloise -- The letters of direction.
Letter 5. Heloise to Abelard ; Letter 6. Abelard to Heloise [summary] ; Letter 7. Abelard to Heloise ; Abelard's confession of faith -- Letters of Peter the Venerable and Heloise. Letter (98) to Pope Innocent II ; Letter (115) to Heloise / Peter the Venerable ; Letter (167) to Peter the Venerable / Heloise ; Letter (168) to Heloise / Peter the Venerable ; The absolution for Peter Abelard -- Two hymns by Abelard. Sabbato ad vesperas = Vespers, Saturday evening ; In parasceve Domini. III. Nocturno = Good Friday, the third Nocturn / translated by Helen Waddell.

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.
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