Listening To Heloise The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman,9780312213541

Listening To Heloise The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman

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ISBN13: 9780312213541
ISBN10: 0312213549
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-04-01
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword ix
Acknowledgments x
Chronology xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: Listening to Heloise xvii
Heloise the Abbess: The Expansion of the Paraclete
1(18)
Mary Martin McLaughlin
Authenticity Revisited
19(16)
John Marenbon
Philosophical Themes in the Epistolae duorum amantium: The First Letters of Heloise and Abelard
35(18)
Constant J. Mews
The Young Heloise and Latin Rhetoric: Some Preliminary Comments on the ``Lost'' Love Letters and Their Significance
53(68)
John O. Ward
Neville Chiavaroli
Textual Strategies in the Abelard/Heloise Correspondence
121(22)
Katharina Wilson
Glenda McLeod
Heloise, Dialectic, and the Heroides
143(18)
Phyllis R. Brown
John C. Peiffer II
Classical Myth and Gender in the Letters of ``Abelard'' and ``Heloise'': Gloss, Glossed, Glossator
161(26)
Jane Chance
``In Any Corner of Heaven'': Heloise's Critique of Monastic Life
187(30)
Linda Georgianna
The Curse of Eve: Female Bodies and Christian Bodies in Heloise's Third Letter
217(16)
Peggy McCracken
Heloise Redressed: Rhetorical Engagement and the Benedictine Rite of Initiation in Heloise's Third Letter
233(22)
Donna Alfano Bussell
Listening to Heloise at the Paraclete: Of Scholarly Diversion and a Woman's ``Conversion''
255(32)
Morgan Powell
No Outlet for Incontinence: Heloise and the Question of Consolation
287(16)
Alcuin Blamires
Heloise and the Consolation of Friendship
303(20)
Brian Patrick McGuire
Quae maternae immemor naturae: The Rhetorical Struggle over the Meaning of Motherhood in the Writings of Heloise and Abelard
323(18)
Juanita Feros Ruys
Pierre Bayle's Reflections on a Much Discussed Woman: The Heloise Article in the Dictionnaire historique et critique
341(20)
Deborah Fraioli
Contributors 361(4)
Bibliography 365(26)
Index 391

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