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Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman

Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman

Hardcover

Series: New Middle Ages

Historical FiguresReligious Biographies

ISBN10: 0312213549
ISBN13: 9780312213541
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 29 2000
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.68
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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. At last we are able to see her for herself, in her moment of history and human awareness.

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