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Article: Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography
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- Magistra
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- July 1, 2005
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James Burge
(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003) 319 pages, $24.95, ISBN 0-06-073663-1.
In Heloise and Abelard: a New Biography, British author James Burge retells their story, which has been pored over by lovers, literature students and Latin scholars for 900 years. What makes Heloise & Ablelard "new" is that it makes use of 113 short letters that many now think were written back and forth between the couple during the course of their two-year affair.
No biography has made use of these 113 "early letters" before, though researchers have known about them since at least 1980. Mr. Burge, a producer and director of documentaries for the BBC and the Discovery Channel, acknowledges that ...