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Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman
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Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman Hardcover - 2000

by Wheeler, Bonnie (Editor)

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Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. Hardcover. New. 394 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.50 inches.
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  • Title Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman
  • Author Wheeler, Bonnie (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 394
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, New York
  • Date 2000
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0312213549
  • ISBN 9780312213541 / 0312213549
  • Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.94 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Library of Congress subjects Helo'ise
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99027776
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the publisher

Heloise, the twelfth-century French abbess and reformer, emerges from this book as one of history's most extraordinary women, a thinker-writer of profound insight and skill. Her learned mind attracted the most radical philosopher of her time, Peter Abelard. He became her teacher, lover, husband, and finally monastic ally. That relationship has made her fame until now. But Heloise is far more important in her own right. Seventeen experts of international standing collaborate here to reveal and analyze how Heloise's daring achievements shaped normative issues of theology, rhetoric, rational argument, gender, and emotional authenticity. At last we are able to see her for herself, in her moment of history and human awareness.

First line

If Heloise seems at last on the very verge of liberation from her long imprisonment in the "authenticity debate," in current scholarship the first abbess of the Paraclete has, it seems, not yet fully escaped the constraints of the correspondence.

About the author

Bonnie Wheeler is Director of the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University.