The Letters and Other Writings

, by Abelard, Peter; Heloise; Levitan, William

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ISBN: 9780872208766 | 0872208761
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/1/2007

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A new translation of the complete correspondence of Abelard and Heloise, this volume also includes a new translation of The Calamities of Abelard, of the letters of Heloise and Peter the Venerable, and of selected songs, hymns, and laments of Abelard. Among the verse selections are translations by Stanley Lombardo and a translation by Barbara Thorburn of a recently discovered 'shaped' poem. A chronology, map, and index are also included.

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Map of Northern France in the time of Abelard and Heloise
The calamities of Peter Abelard	p. 1
Letters of Abelard and Heloise	p. 47
Heloise to Abelard	p. 49
Abelard to Heloise	p. 63
Heloise to Abelard	p. 71
Abelard to Heloise	p. 85
Heloise to Abelard	p. 105
Abelard to Heloise	p. 127
Abelard to Heloise	p. 170
The questions of Heloise : introductory letter	p. 257
Abelard's confession of faith	p. 260
Letters of Heloise and Peter the venerable	p. 263
Peter to Heloise	p. 265
Heloise to Peter	p. 272
Peter to Heloise	p. 274
Selected songs and poems of Peter Abelard	p. 277
Dull is the star	p. 279
Hymn for Saturday vespers : how great the Sabbath	p. 280
Hymn for the feast of the presentation of Jesus in the temple	p. 282
Hymn for the night office and vespers	p. 283
Lament of the virgins of Israel for the daughter of Jephtha	p. 284
Lament of David for Saul and Jonathan	p. 289
Open wide your eyes : a shaped poem on the incarnation of the word	p. 293
To Astralabe, my son	p. 294
From "the letter to Philintus"	p. 303
From the letters of two lovers	p. 315
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