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Article: The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France.
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- Church History
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- September 1, 2002
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By Constant J. Mews. With translations By Neville Chiavaroli and Constant J. Mews. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. xvii + 378 pp. $49.95.
The letters of Abelard and Heloise have attracted an audience ever since the thirteenth century, when Jean de Meun, the author of The Romance of the Rose, brought them to the attention of his readers by quoting a particularly provocative line by Heloise. While the letters shed light on a wide range of topics, it is their discussion of love that first made them famous and that has colored most subsequent interpretations. Even recent debates over the authenticity of the correspondence often put love at the heart of the dispute, ...