| Description |
xxii, 394 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The new Middle Ages
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New Middle Ages.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-390) and index. |
| Contents |
Heloise the Abbess: the expansion of the Paraclete / Mary Martin McLaughlin -- Authenticity revisited / John Marenbon -- Philosophical themes in the Epistolae duorum amantium: the first letters of Heloise and Abelard / Constant J. Mews -- The young Heloise and latin rhetoric: some preliminary comments on the "lost" love letters and their significance / John O. Ward and Neville Chiavaroli -- Textual strategies in the Abelard/Heloise correspondence / Katharina Wilson and Glenda McLeod -- Heloise, dialectic, and the Heroides / Phyllis R. Brown and John C. Peiffer II -- Classical myth and gender in the letters of "Abelardand "Heloise": gloss, glossed, glossator / Jane Chance -- "In any corner of heaven": Heloise's critique of monastic life / Linda Georgianna -- The curse of Eve: female bodies and christian bodies in Heloise's third letter / Peggy McCracken -- Heloise redressed: rhetorical engagement and the Benedictine rite of initiation in Heloise's third letter / Donna Alfano Bussell -- Listening to Heloise at the Paraclete: of scholarly diversion and a woman's "conversion" / Morgan Powell -- No outlet for incontinence: Heloise and the question of consolation / Alcuin Blamires -- Heloise and the consolation of friendship / Brian Patrick McGuire -- Quae maternae immemor naturae: the rhetorical struggle over the meaning of motherhood in the writings of Heloise and Abelard / Juanita Feros Ruys -- Pierre Bayle's reflections on a much discussed woman: the Heloise article in the Dictionnaire historique et critique / Deboral Fraioli. |
| Subject |
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
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Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164. |
| Added Author |
Wheeler, Bonnie, 1944-
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| ISBN |
0312213549 |
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