The Lost Love Letters Of Heloise And Abelard

C. J. Mews

Original title: The lost love letters of Heloise and Abelard

first published 1999 Macmillan, 1999 378 pages

The new Middle Ages

"In this book, Constant Mews examines a collection of Latin love letters preserved in a fifteenth-century manuscript of Clairvaux, edited by Ewald Konsgen in 1974 under the title The Letters of Two Lovers. He argues that it records 113 love letters exchanged by Heloise and Abelard at the time of their love affair. Mews provides an indepth analysis of the debate concerning the authenticity of the letters and looks at...

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The lost love letters of Heloise and Abelard edition · 2008 · Palgrave Macmillan · 421 pages · 9780230608139
La voix d'Heloise edition · 2005 · Cerf · 347 pages · 9782204072182
The Lost Love Letters Of Heloise And Abelard edition · 1999 · Macmillan · 378 pages · 9780333754726
The lost love letters of Heloise and Abelard edition · 1999 · St. Martin's Press · 378 pages

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