The Letter Collection of Peter Abelard and Heloise
ISBN: 9780198222484 | 0198222483
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/15/2013
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The collected letters of Peter Abelard and Heloise provide an extraordinarily vivid account of one of the most celebrated love affairs in the western world. It was an affair that developed into a vigorous quarrel and raised fundamental questions about love, marriage, and religious life, and also provided a uniquely valuable illustration of the intellectual and religious ferment that is called the Renaissance of the twelfth century. Abelard was the leading philosopher of his time and a very public figure in France, as well as being a fiercely at... MORE
| Introduction | |
| History And Legend | |
| The Letter Collection | |
| Other Letters | |
| Other Letters Relating to the Oratory of the Paraclete | |
| Authorship and Authenticity of the Letter Collection | |
| Style and Structure | |
| Epistulae Duorum Amantium | |
| The Development of the Oratory of the Paraclete | |
| History of the Text | ... MORE |
| The Surviving Manuscripts | |
| Lost or Uncertainly Identified Manuscripts and other Testimonies to the Letter Collection Prior to the First Printed Edition | |
| Rejected Manuscripts | |
| Summary List of Surviving and Lost or Uncertainly Identified Manuscripts in Approximate Chronological Order and of their Provenance or Earliest Known Possessors | |
| Printed Editions of the Letter Collection: Before 1800 | |
| Printed Editions from 1800 of the Letter Collection which use one or more Manuscripts, both Latin and French | |
| The Present Edition | |
| Relationships between the Manuscripts | |
| Stemma | |
| The Edition | |
| The Translation | |
| Sigla of the Manuscripts | |
| Summary of Manuscript Witnesses to each of the Letters and of their Extents | |
| Letter 1 | |
| Letter 2 | |
| Letter 3 | |
| Letter 4 | |
| Letter 5 | |
| Letter 6 | |
| Letter 7 | |
| Letter 8 | |
| The Rule | |
| Bibliography | |
| Concordance | |
| Indexes | |
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