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Heloise and Abelard: A New Biography (Plus) (Insight (Concordia)) - Softcover
From Publishers Weekly
The romance of H�lo�se and Abelard remains one of the greatest love stories of all time—one of forbidden love; the eventual lifelong separation of the lovers, cloistered in a monastery and convent; and the vengeful castration of Abelard by H�lo�se's uncle.
More tantalizingly, we know of the affair only from eight surviving letters between the couple. But British Sunday Independent columnist Burge draws on 113 recently translated letters that have been attributed to the lovers.
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Based on all of these letters, Burge analyzes the feelings and states of mind of the correspondents, and he can be a bit pedantic at times. But who can fail to be moved by the passion expressed in the letters? "Even during the celebration of the Mass," H�lo�se famously wrote, "when our prayers should be purest, lewd visions of the pleasures we shared take...
a hold on my unhappy soul...." Burge relat